Quotes About Ego

Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them.

To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify with them. A

When one sees herself and her kind as the standard of perfection against which all else is measured, it is impossible to have perspective.

The ego thought system is based not only on guilt, but on lack. The scarecrow thinks he needs a brain, the tin man thinks he needs a heart, and the lion thinks he lacks courage. We are taught we have to earn everything here, or that it has to be bestowed upon us by someone worthier or better than we are. We suffer and sacrifice ourselves in order to be worthy of God's love. Does this feel right to you?

Helen Lawson: The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?

All scoundrels are based on this, to want to be...someone's big Other.

There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you

Generally, the smartest people on the planet – those people who think they are really smart – tend to have the most horrible relationships.

The whole art of being a Guru is just this: to constantly puncture people's egos and still manage to remain their friend.

If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That's the beauty of being a human being.

I so despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.

Google puts itself first. So does every other company on the planet. There is no requirement that you have to put yourself second. Indeed, why would you?

it is not the "I" that has desires, it is desire that forms and sustains the "I".

Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth

Vanity is the Death of Comedy.

I tell my life's story for that humble reason which has inspired every user of the form: to prove to the world I am a great man. I shall fail, of course, like the others.

If we center our thoughts and activities on ourselves, our world grows increasingly narrow, and over time our view of reality is warped. Without realizing it, we become the measure of all things in our own minds.

Con cada libro adoptamos un miedo, pequeñito y delicado como un gusano de seda. El miedo a no hacer justicia a las palabras del otro, a no ser capaz de crear una metáfora digna del momento, un símbolo propio de esa voz o aquella mirada, el temor de habernos traicionado y escribir des del ego y no desde alma.

Con cada libro adoptamos un miedo, pequeñito y delicado como un gusano de seda. El miedo a no hacer justicia a las palabras del otro, a no ser capaz de crear una metáfora digna del momento, un símbolo propio de esa voz o aquella mirada, el temor de habernos traicionado y escribir desde el ego y no desde alma.

He had a certain almost obsequious charm. He liked talking about himself, and did not ask many questions of her. She noticed the imbalance but did not mind.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

It's too easy to believe in our own importance when we're surrounded by our own creations all day.

The less we feel we need to address pride, the more it has already blinded us.