- “You will never get the same from people you expect, Better ask to god he will you more than that, Because in his world ego and attitude doesn’t mean anything.” ― Paul karan
- “If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “Pride takes a minor accomplishment and makes it feel like a major one. From the start, it drives a wedge between the possessor and reality, subtly and not so subtly changing her perceptions of what something is and what it isn’t. It is these steering opinions, only loosely secured by fact or accomplishment, that send us careering toward delusion or worse.” ― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
- “She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.” ― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3
- “Somebody must listen,” answered Frog, ” and I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince & Other Stories
- “For worldly activities like swimming and paragliding, you need to put on additional special outfits. For spiritual pursuit, you need to remove your existing outfits (layers of ego).” ― Shunya
- “But maybe your outside of the box is someone else’s cliché …” ― Samiha Totanji
- “To not do egoism in that which is mandatory is known as Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Who Am I?
- “After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.” ― Gary Gordon
- “High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos.” ― lauren klarfeld
- “If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “Be so much of a man that your woman has no reason to sound like your mother.” ― VaeEshia Ratcliff Davis
- The walls of pride are high and wide, can’t see over to the other side. Bob Dylan
- “I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn’t release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no matter the context, no matter the history.What is “power” anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.” ― Lauren Myracle, Bliss
- “Spiritual enlightenment includes the realization that there is no ‘there’ to go to, and no one to go.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Realizing that God or Nature did not give you free will will free you.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Being aware is being aware of one’s own mind and the games it plays on itself.” ― Robin Macnaughton, Power Astrology: Make The Most Of Your Sun Sign
- “Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate.” ― Ashish Patel
- “The square root of I is I.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister
- “A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.” ― Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
- “Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.” ― Megha Khare, Write like no one is reading 2
- “It’s easy to love (and be loved) when you set aside your ego.” ― Charles F Glassman
- “People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our relation to people and things. They aim for control because ownership falsely promises us an elevated sense of self. But this is exactly the opposite of love. When we fall in love, we disidentify and get lost for a little while in a song, a beautiful painting, and most of all, we get lost in our lover. And through their love, we find our true infinite selves.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Don’t let your ego surpass your reputation; That will lead to your downfall” ― Cole Edward Willis
- “We all have this restful mind, but sometimes our fears and our ego mind get the better of us and we can’t see it.” ― Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
- “People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one’s inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.” ― Aporva Kala, Life… Love… Kumbh…
- Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. Marcus Aurelius