If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride.

Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our...

The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell’s ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome but in very few other public places. This runaway megalomania marked him as a...

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us...

Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

I’m so honest, that in order to compliment you, I’d improve you first.

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning...

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

I don’t want to see you. I don’t like you. I don’t like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You’re impertinent. You’re too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched...

Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

I” has identified with.

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a...

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Uno de los grandes Sufis dijo: “Un santo es un santo a menos que sepa que lo es”.

I need your compliments to feed my ego, because it’s bored of mac and cheese. And honestly, so am I.

Imran Khan says ‘End your ego, think of nation

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

Be a star not a diva!

Realizing your true self apart from the mind-created ego self is profoundly liberating, and when you do, suddenly the universe appears immensely blissful.

As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self...

I have a big wand.

Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you’ve accomplished, and who you know.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep...

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

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.

Cheney had no problem letting Bradford be first chairman; he didn’t let his ego get in the way of a very strategic and smart business combination. Egos are what screw up most combinations in my...

Honesty is about the scars. It’s about the blemishes. But it’s more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It’s about truly helping people.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I’d think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?

Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely...

Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from… the greater inner law that has left behind its...

There you go. That ego of yours getting in the way,” I teased.”Of what?””The perfect package.”He snorted. “Let me tell you, I have the perfect–“”Don’t be gross.

The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when...

I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds...

I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you’ve got to take your ego out of the equation.

Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one’s fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the...

I don’t read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don’t know.

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.