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Quotes About Ego

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
~ Helen Rowland
Christ Our shared Identity of Oneness. The Self that God created by the extension of His Spirit. Our spiritual Identity. Christ vision Spiritual sight; seeing beyond the body and the ego. Interpreting others behaviors as (1) an act of love or (2) a calling out for love. Seeing both as no reason for defense or attack, and every reason for extending love. The ability to mentally see beyond all worldly interference and see the light of holiness in everything.
~ Helen Schucman
special relationship A relationship with someone that we think will contribute to our specialness and save us from the perceived lack we feel within ourselves. This love is not real and will sooner or later end in disappointment. God's answer to this mistaken endeavor is to create holy relationships joined together by His Love.
~ Helen Schucman
The ego is nothing more than a false belief about our identity. It is the belief that we are separate, alone, and on our own.
~ Helen Schucman
Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? You will accept only whom you invite.
~ Helen Schucman
3 El ego es un intento de la mente errada para que te percibas a ti mismo tal como deseas ser, en vez de como realmente eres. 4 Sin embargo, sólo te puedes conocer a ti mismo como realmente eres, ya que de eso es de lo único que puedes estar seguro. 5 Todo lo demás es cuestionable.
~ Helen Schucman
Tu propio estado mental es un buen ejemplo de cómo fue inventado el ego. 2 Cuando repudiaste el Conocimiento fue como si nunca lo hubieses tenido. 3 Esto es tan evidente que basta con que lo reconozcas para constatar que eso es lo que en realidad ocurre.
~ Helen Schucman
6Do not attempt to give the Holy Spirit what He does not ask, or you will add the ego unto Him and confuse the two. 7He asks but little. 8It is He Who adds the greatness and the might. 9He joins with you to make the holy instant far greater than you can understand. 10It is your realization that you need do so little that enables Him to give so much.
~ Helen Schucman
The slumber of the "I" is at the root of most suffering.
~ Helene Brenner
When you leave your ego at the door and stop trying to be the smartest person in the room, your opinions and ideas will be more appropriately valued and appreciated" (and that's applicable to both genders). He told me that to be heard, women should offer insights regularly rather than only expressing the occasional opinion.
~ Helene Lerner
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
~ Henri Bergson
W]ithin our ego, there is succession without mutual externality; outside the ego, in pure space, mutual externality without succession.
~ Henri Bergson
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
~ Henry Ford
Pride and ego among various personalities is a sure way to cause friction and split up a group.
~ Henry Hon
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
~ Henry Kissinger
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
~ Henry Kissinger
The line between confidence and arrogance can be not only thin but also vague.
~ Henry Mintzberg
When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension
~ Henry Rollins
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy