Ego and pride is a two headed twist.

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I’m a very important person.

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and...

The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn’t surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself – the burden of self-importance. The narcissist reconstructs...

I need a Caution: Slippery When Wet sign, because I just spilled my ego all over the floor.

Cuando se ejercita la humildad, la gente comienza a advertir que, por así decirlo, no existe en modo alguno.

To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never...

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It’s a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

In life there are often moments when the battle is between a relationship that means a lot and a small yet dangerous three letter word ‘EGO’. Don’t let this devil win and make you a...

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

Smiling for no reason at all is the reason i’m smiling

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.

If you think you’re smart,think twice to be smarter.

If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never...

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is...

If we take memetics seriously then the ‘me’ that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.

The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself …

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.

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread....

Egos clash. That’s the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.

Fears hide within fears….

Love takes just a moment, it is the ego that takes days, months and years.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

When true happiness shows up, the ego is bored with it: It’s too plain, too ordinary, and it doesn’t leave us feeling special or above the fray. It doesn’t take away our problems, which is...

In the Blue Room, Cora Cash was trying to concentrate on her book. Cora found most novels hard to sympathise with — all those plain governesses — but this one had much to recommend it....

I’m treating it as an Olympic experience where for the most part we were going to beat teams, … I knew I’d be needed somewhere between the quarterfinals and gold medal. With this Houston team,...

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.

Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight...

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.

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?I had a bigger hole to fill.What do you mean?A rock star is someone with a hole in his...

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos–...

Religion does not mean to worship cows. Religion is within the body of a human being. There is infinite power within this human body and manifestation of that power is Religion. In one sense it...

Winning or losing achieves the same result–change.

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it’s still nice...

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

In middle school, I got picked on a lot. But boy, it sure felt good to get picked, because who doesn’t like to get chosen and called out as special?

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad