Quotes About Ego

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.

We do what we do not to be known but for what we know to be known; the chase of fame is an absolute loss of aim.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

human beings are very narcissistic, they like to see themselves everywhere and be the foil for the rest of creation' (I, iv).

she'd also said more than once that I wasn't half as clever as I thought I was. Considering what I thought of myself, that still made me pretty damn clever.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self.

Each age needs its own language for understanding enduring truths…The ancient world didn't have much of what we call reality; they lived, instead, by the slender threads. We have gained ego reality but have lost the mystical and religious functions that should guide our lives.

In realizing all this, we understand how we are just bundles of sense perceptions, with the substance of a dream or a bubble on the surface of the sea. The vanity of the usual kind of self-preoccupation becomes clear, and we are freed from selfish concerns in our enjoyment of the universe as it is, and of our own previously unsuspected depths.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

All things being equal, you root for your own sex, your own culture, your own locality…and what you want to prove is that you are better than the other person. Whomever you root for represents you; and when he wins, you win."88

But the true emperor, Luke is telling us, arrives vulnerable and exposed, because the good life is not about the protection of the ego, but rather about the willingness to become open to the other in love.

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

Thank God for Codependence, without it we would not be alive. But now is the time to get things into balance - the time to bring ego-self into alignment and balance with Spiritual Self. That is the transformation which is known as "the death of the ego." To quote theSt. Francis Prayer, "It is through dying that we awaken to eternal life." It is not referring just to physical death, it is referring to the death of the ego which allows us to awaken to the Truth of eternal life.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.

The sweetest sound to anyone's ears is the sounds of his own name.

Self absorption is anti-seductive; it is a sign of insecurity.

talking endlessly about [ourselves] is eminently anti-seductive, revealing not self-sufficiency but insecurity.

The world is full of self-absorbed people. In their presence, we know that everything in our relationship with them is directed toward themselves—their insecurities, their neediness, their hunger for attention.