Quotes About Ego

Humility is freedom from your own driven ego.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Always remember that it's the ego that wants to know and identify everything that is taking place and that this desire is an unnecessary distraction from the real work.

The problem that is being addressed in this therapy is that the ego is mistaken for the self, when it is not

it is more properly understood as a masking of the self that is a constructed identity, a character. When the ego is too dominant, it prevents people from knowing their true identity and, as a result, interferes with an individual's ability to make informed and clear distinctions between authentic reality and contrived reality, and to act accordingly.

When the ego does not seem to live up to the beliefs, ideas, and judgments that are imposed from its context, internal conflict arises, and this creates a new layer of masking and character formation

If you are actively believing in the reality of what you are seeing, you are caught in your ego.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

It's my world, you all just live in it.

Remember, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Vanity, thy name is

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how c

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.