Quotes About Ego

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.