Quotes About Ego

When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts. You make something big out of something so little, because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

Haces una montaña de un grano de arena porque sientes la necesidad de tener razón y de que los demás estén equivocados.

We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.

Llega un momento en la vida en que nos cansamos de necesitar tener siempre la razón, sobre todo cuando vemos que la necesidad de alimentar el ego afecta nuestras relaciones con quienes deseamos tener por amigos, cuyas bellas almas no desean más que querernos.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me.

La importancia personal, o el tomarse las cosas personalmente, es la expresión máxima del egoísmo, porque consideramos que todo gira a nuestro alrededor.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me." During the period of our education, or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are responsible for everything. Me, me, me, always me!

You make something big out of something so little, because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong. You also try hard to be right by giving them your own opinions.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true. Your opinion comes from your beliefs, your own ego, and your own dream.

Cuando creemos algo, suponemos que tenemos razón hasta el punto de llegar a destruir nuestras relaciones para defender nuestra posición.

It happens that way when a man strives to become the centre of attention, to bring sensational news somewhere.

How defenseless we are in the face of flattery!

How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?

How defenceless we are in the face of flattery!

Esa preocupación por la propia imagen, ahí es donde reside la fatal inmadurez del hombre

Qué indefenso está el hombre ante los elogios!

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La preoccupazione per la propria immagine, è questa la fatale immaturità dell'uomo. È così difficile essere indifferenti alla propria immagine. Una tale indifferenza è al di sopra delle forze umane. L'uomo ci arriva solo dopo la morte. E neanche subito. Solo molto tempo dopo la morte.

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.

And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.

The greatest enemy to love is your pride

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.