- “The ego is such a clever thing it even possesses a set of humble clothes.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “Conflict forces us to be fully present because it shatters our ego – stripping away all hope of escape or sugar coating. It removes everything that is nonessential to our authentic being; it removes all superficial layers. Conflict is painful because it wakes us up out of our created illusions. And if we lean into it, conflict can be the catalyst to our enlightenment.” ― Alaric Hutchinson
- When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
- “Ego and pride is a two headed twist.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
- “If you’re working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That’s why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.” ― Lewis Black
- “Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground…don’t let your ego run out of control and convince you that you are better than anyone else” ― Jerry Gladstone, The Common Thread of Overcoming Adversity and Living Your Dreams
- “Detoxification makes man positive,It creates clean love & start to binding broken relationship easily.It removes wall of ego, bitterness,hatreds,, etc.” ― pranita deshpande
- “Das Ego des Menschen ist das falsche Ego; Gottes Ego ist das wahre Ego. Doch was ist das Ego? Das Ego ist Teil einer Linie: an einem Ende der Linie befindet sich Gottes Ego, am anderen das Ego des Menschen. Letzteres ist falsch, weil der Mensch sein Ego mit seinen Illusionen überdeckt hat, die er Ich-selbst nennt. Daher, wenn das Ego durch Liebe, Weisheit oder Meditation aufgelöst wird verfliegen die Wolken, die es bedeckten und das wahre Ego, Gottes Ego tritt in Erscheinung. (S. 176)” ― Hazrat Inayat Khan
- “A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.” ― Swami Dhyan Giten
- “Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.” ― Kale Burton
- “Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes, yet surrendering to demanding indices of an inflated ego leads us to living a miserable life.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “Most of the people don’t see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “There is simply no problem of life; it is absolutely purposeless play; it doesn’t have to continue; there is no reason whatever to explain it, for explanations are just another form of complexity, a new manifestation of life on top of life, gestures gesturing. If there is any problem at all it is to find out how people come to think there is a problem, whatever made them imagine that life is serious. Basically there is the gesture. Time, space, multiplicity are all complications of it. Pain and suffering are very far-out forms of play, and there just isn’t anything at all to be afraid of. There isn’t any ego. The ego is a kind of flip, knowing that you know — like being afraid of being afraid. It’s a curlicue, an extra jazz to things, a sort of double take or reverberation, a dithering of consciousness which is the same as anxiety.” ― Alan Watts, The Collected Letters of Alan Watts
- “An unchecked ego essentially becomes a hyper sense of separation. You become more and more a fragment in your own experience. People around you are seen as others. Relating to people becomes difficult. the “other” people are most seen as different from you when they are your enemies. Your sense of separation drives you to try to secure as much as possible for yourself. You need to be better then the others! Where the sense of connection to the world around you should be, there is an emptiness. This can lead to trying to find yourself in the material world through relationships, consumerism, or drugs.” ― DM
- “The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Let your knowledge be your adviser and not your arrogance.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “So, Freckles,” he said when I sat down. “Freckles?” I interrupted. “You said I couldn’t call ya, Katie-cat.” I shuddered. “I do have a given name, you know.” “I don’t want to call you what everyone else calls you.” “You don’t?” “Nope.” “Why?” I asked suspiciously. “Because I’m special.” “There goes that ego of yours again.” I held out my arms wide. “Big,” I mouthed.” ― Cambria Hebert, Torch
- Pride goes before destruction. Aesop
- “Pride or shame? What’s the difference?” ― Arti Manani, Seven Sins
- “There is no change in people, we only evolve through self-discovery or devolve when ego takes control.” ― Mihail Militaru
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “It is in attempting to solve all of my problems on my own that I end up creating some of the greatest problems that I’ll ever own.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Don’t let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don’t allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don’t give in to your fears. Stay focused.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- “If you think you’re smart,think twice to be smarter.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
- “All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “One could almost hear him saying, ‘It’s me! Here I come, the great man himself, the master of the house, the wage-earner, the one who makes it possible for the rest of you to live so well! Notice me and pay your respects!” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
- “Meditation peels away at the ego revealing our true Self.” ― J.R. Incer, Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness
- “When we’re outside of alignment we’re outside of love and our perceived experiences of love are not love at all but rather attachments of the ego. We must be willing to surrender the ego, to our higher self, our higher existence. When we refuse thissurrendering we make the choice to go through painful experiences that are heartbreaking and frustrating until we make the choice to surrender and come into alignment with our higher self, our wholeness. This experience of surrendering andalignment does not constrict us to a rigid existence but rather expands us into infinite possibilities. We are now a reflection of source, which is infinite and free flowing.” ― Victoria L. White, Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
- Your ego is your self-image created by thought. It’s your social mask requiring validation because it lives in fear of losing its sense of identity. Thibaut