Quotes About Ego

The child's experience of the mother is internalized as a complex; an emotionally charged cluster of energy beyond the control of the ego.

Doubt is a form of radical relationship to and respect for mystery. The absence of doubt is a very scary thing. What that leads to is psychological, political, economic, spiritual fundamentalism. It leads to rigidity. It leads to a profound defense of the ego's security needs above all things [...] The absence of doubt ultimately leads to a violation of the mystery itself.

To serve the gods, not the ego, not the tribe, not one's parents, not one's prior picture, is to transform.

Pride, O pride, thy prize!

Emmeline seemed to lie the way all narcissists do. Whatever they say, regardless of its absurdity, becomes the truth.

When he goes to a wedding he wants to be the bride, and when he goes to a funeral he wants to be the corpse. (Commentary about Teddy Roosevelt, who was president when he came to give away his niece to Franklin).

War presents itself as necessary for self-protection, when in fact it is necessary for self-identification.

Delusional. Like Donald Trump with a comb.

I'm not a dumbass, but I am a prick.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I realised those things my ego needed - fame and success - were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. I had to walk away from America and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career because I knew, otherwise, my demons would get the better of me.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

How can you create a team and bring all these egos together? The main goal for Manchester United is for them to play well - and not have a player saying, 'I play well; I scored two goals'. Because if I score two goals, but three goals go into our net, then we lose.

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

Narcissism is a trait universally unappreciated by human beings, and NFL players fall into this human bucket.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

The universe, it balances. It makes sure you don't get a head that's too big. I love it.

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.