Quotes About Ego

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no "I," no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door.

Ego is like our shadow.... when enlightenment is at its best there is no ego and we live well within ourselves.... however as soon as the sun (of sanity)starts setting our ego starts outgrowing us.

Often we forget to acknowledge the brilliant minds around us, in the process of impressing the small minds.

The poor ego… serves three severe masters and does what it can to bring their claims and demands into harmony with one another. No wonder that the ego so often fails in its task. Its three tyrannical masters are the external world, the super-ego and the id.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Kiedy los nam nie sprzyja, w g??bi serca wszyscy jeste?my egoistami i wszyscy wznosimy te same mod?y: tylko nie ja, tylko nie ja, jeszcze nie teraz.

Men," said Suzie. "Why don't you just get them out and measure them?

You think I've got a big ego and an attitude problem? -I don't think you do, Carlos. I know it. Unfortunately, it's a Fuentes flaw. -I'd call it an asset. It's what makes us Fuentes brothers irresistible. Carlos and Brittany

Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me. "Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.

Sylvia grabs my sleeve. "He's a looker." "I know. The problem is, he knows it, too.

You've got a big ego, Fuentes." "That's not all I've got.

I came to see a Latino wedding, and I expect to see one," I tell him. "And here I thought you were comin' to be with me." "You've got a big ego, Fuentes." "That's not all I've got." He backs me against my car, his breath warming my neck more than the midday sun.

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so."

He never unbends to Paul completely anyway. I detect just the faintest air of condescension when they're together, the natural conviction of superiority that it seems a man of six foot three can't help feeling over a man just five foot seven and a half.

Our pride will lead us to perish, but our politeness keeps us alive.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Every man is his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.