I didn’t think there was life after modelling, believe me. It’s a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are...

Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child...

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings...

…most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

You need nothing more than the experience you are having right now. It is enough. It is plenty. It is perfect just as it is. It was designed for you, given to you for your...

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if...

If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them,...

My ego’s not the kind that says, ‘I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.’

I’m aware that, from the outside, this looks like I’ve got quite an ego.

You’ll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering...

There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation...

Too many decisions are made based on satisfying ego.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul’s potential.

Don’t allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I...

Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

The hated man is the result of his hater’s pride rather than his hater’s conscience.

Dicho del ProfetaEl juezUn hombre que es nombrado juez ha sido asesinado sin cuchillo.

Who I am is unimportant. But who I am is very important. I’ll suppress my ego now, every occurring now, so I can achieve my maximum later.

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence....

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 –

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Yüksek ego kendini evrenin kralı gibi görmeni sağlar, h lbuki gerçekte hiçbir şeyin kralısın!

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.

Despite our instinct to polarize ourselves in the name of survival, an indescribable connection – call it love or compassion – pervades and dissolves our apparent separation. This oneness transcends physical and emotional relationships; it’s...

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing...

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth,...

In this storyI am the poetYou’re the poetry.

EGO means attachment to layers of our unexamined thoughts and illusions.We avoid self inquiry because it shatters our belief system and false image.

Atheism is a religion of egoism….they hate the name “God” so much that they INSIST that whatever CAUSED BigBang should not be called anything else except Bigbang.

problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and...

Your love is as stable as you are: It’s not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

No matter how great you are, you could always be greater. Let this be a lesson in the need to lessen the size of your ego.

La codicia os daña: la generosidad os ayuda. Por eso se ha dicho: “La codicia es la madre de la incapacidad”.

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

I hid my wound under my clothes. Nobody could see it, including myself, and I completely forgot about it. Then I met someone who, filled with love, held me tight in that point. The pain...

In the cosmos of time, there’s not a cocksucker in this room who is more than a fart in the wind!

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one’s own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the “I”....