Quotes About Ego

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress.

Just because creativity is mystical doesn't mean it shouldn't also be demystified—especially if it means liberating artists from the confines of their own grandiosity, panic, and ego.

An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call "a hungry ghost"—forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed.

Guilt is just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking you're making moral progress. - Vivian

Either way, the vulnerable human ego is protected. Protected from the corrupting influence of praise. Protected from the corrosive effects of shame.

because creativity is mystical doesn't mean it shouldn't also be demystified—especially if it means liberating artists from the confines of their own grandiosity, panic, and ego.

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what your ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit

For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego, which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself.

Your ego is a wonderful servant, but it's a terrible master—because the only thing your ego ever wants is reward, reward, and more reward.

Your ego's job isn't to serve you. Its only job is to keep itself in power. And right now, your ego's scared to death cuz it's about to get downsized. You keep up this spiritual path, baby, and that bad boy's days are numbered. Pretty soon your ego will be out of work, and your heart'll be making all the decisions.

I have come to understand what part of me is suffering when I fail: It's just my ego. It's that simple.

People think they're interesting. That's their first mistake.

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

Okay so enough about me..now what do you think about me?

The act of saying I forgive you, it's like saying you are less than me and I have the moral or superior upper hand.

It's always nicer, I think, to be a big frog in a little puddle than to be an unrecognised croaker in a great, big pool.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Lutamos muito para ter um ego, mas se nos identificamos com ele, esquecemos o self, negando-o por ignorância ou orgulho até que nosso sofrimento se torne insuportável.

Também se diz que a Lua é yin na sua relação com o Sol, mas yang em sua relação com a Terra. Traduzindo isso em termos psicológicos, talvez possamos dizer que o relacionamento do ego com o Self deveria ser visto como receptivo, mas que, no tocante à autoexpressão ele é criativo.

O ego vive uma vida quantitativa, o símbolo nos une a uma vida qualitativa e tem a capacidade de impregnar de sentido a coisa mais simples.

Talvez tenhamos um acesso potencial a toda história arquivada nas próprias células do nosso ser psicossomático. Se assim é, devemos agradecer ao ego por nos proteger do que está além do que podemos suportar em qualquer dado momento.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.