Quotes About Ego

A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.

Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.

There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.

One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.

It's really good to love yourself, just don't love yourself so much in a way that you will not be able to see anyone else!

When love speaks it is about us or we. When ego speaks it is about I or me.

I wish you self-esteem so high – you're humble.

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility." BERTRAND RUSSELL Power

The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks-- we're so involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

We often think things are about us when they are not.

and time is the stuff of which a self is made.

The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egostical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks. We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going . So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

Arrogance is incurable.

What pain and discomfort people endure to look important.

every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss. Time

Sometimes a man has to be great enough to know how insignificant he is.

But you know, I get tired of these overwhelming physical presences like your Mr. Hawke. All charisma and outsized ego, using the intensity of their beliefs to hit you like a fist. It's wearing.

False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Egotism and vanity. These qualities serve as red lights which warn others to keep away. They are fatal to success.

You take yourself too seriously, he said slowly. You are too damn important in your own mind. That must be changed! You are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything. You're so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don't go your way. I suppose you think that shows you have character. That's nonsense! You're weak, and conceited! - Dom Juan

The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To