Quotes About Ego

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

Man is a foolish creature who wants above all to have someone else know about him.

La misión de encontrar y destruir a nuestro propio ego nos acerca a la grandeza.

La política era algo que se había centrado en el ego, como una nube que parece sólida pero en realidad no es otra cosa que vapor.

La identidad y la posesión forman parte del dominio del ego. A través del ego nos apegamos a una ideología, a un partido político, a una persona y a nuestras opiniones fragmentadas y apasionadas.

Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.

When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.

Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed....

His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.

A los otros es preciso destruirlos. A todos. Para que yo pueda levantar mi rostro al sol es necesario que sea devastado el mundo entero...

The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.

When we say 'I', we mean the story in our head, not the onrushing stream of experiences we undergo.

Like a child thinking that his parents are fighting because of him, the monotheist is convinced that the Persians are fighting the Babylonians because of him.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

Täydellinen ihminen on vapautunut itseydestään; henkistynyt ihminen ei välitä ansioiden tavoittelusta; todellinen Viisas ei välitä maineesta.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can't feed them both.

All actions, Arjuna, are performed by Prakriti, the modes of Nature. The ignorant, deluded by the ego, think, 'I am the doer." Excerpt From 'Invincible Arjuna