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Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron — Sherrilyn Kenyon

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — Matthieu Ricard

The ego's blocking the light from coming. — Sandra Cisneros

You bruised my ego, you see, and there's just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised — Jennifer Estep

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually. — Robert Adams

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego. — Dallas Willard

I love introvert people. They ignore us on face unlike the extrovert's alter ego — Bhavik Sarkhedi

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.' — Joe Namath

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. — Eckhart Tolle

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman. — Joss Whedon

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you. — Charles Caleb Colton

Too many decisions are made based on satisfying ego. — Tim Fargo

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion. — Miguel

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

When in doubt, flatter the ego. — Jessica Clare

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great. — Paul Arden

He'd always had too God damn big an ego. He — Larry A. Winters

My ego only needs a good rhythm section — Miles Davis

Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away. — Nikki Rowe

Get your egos off the battlefield. — Charlie Sheen

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it
just don't get lost in it. — Ram Dass

As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self. — Dada Bhagwan

As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion? — Dada Bhagwan

Do things the ego does not like to do. — Stuart Wilde

Again, I tried to not let it bother me, but the ego is frail, fragile tender thing. — S.C. Stephens

The egoist does not tolerate egoism. — Philibert Joseph Roux

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — Terence McKenna

To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego. — Peter Santos

A lot of people may not know this but I'm quite famous. — Sam Malone

Keep your ego from interfering with you search for the truth. — Vincent Ruggiero

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart. — Ram Dass

How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego. — Amanda Torroni

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard. — Colin Clark

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment. — Wayne Dyer

When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge. — Albert Einstein

Being disciplined with an ego that makes you to feel like you can never be disciplined by any other person is "indiscipline". — Israelmore Ayivor

If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego! — Richard Rohr

If I paid too much attention to naysayers or let encouragers bloat my ego, I'd lose focus on what mattered: the company. — Anonymous

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment. — Eckhart Tolle

A small ego equals A BIG HEART - Manprit Kaur — Manprit Kaur

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. — Chris Lowe

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself. — Robin Macnaughton

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego. — Joko Beck

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him. — Frederik Pohl

Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. — Rumi

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am. — Jim Beaver

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece. — Anthony De Mello

The borders between different countries are, in truth, not real. They are a by-product of the ego. — Christopher Dines

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing. — Steve Perry

If I am indeed my own god, I'd better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

To enter your true self,
check your ego at the door. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart. — Ajahn Amaro

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change. — Eckhart Tolle

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it? — C. Terry Warner

The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy. — Masanobu Fukuoka

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend. — Ramana Maharshi

Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility. — T.F. Hodge

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs. — Vic Tayback

This is not suitable for me"- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say 'will not suit' is an offense. — Dada Bhagwan

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability. — Jerrod Carmichael

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad. — Brad Moore

There was nothing to deflate a man's ego like a bit of frill around the collar. — Susan Dennard

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love? — Lauryn Hill

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. — Ramakrishna

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up. — Swami Vivekananda

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego. — Rumi

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. — Dee Remy

One side of his lips quirked up in a sexy smirk. "Got a cure for
that frustration you got going on," he said.
"Got a cure for your ego? — Jamie Farrell

Where id was, there ego shall be. — Sigmund Freud

If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions. — Paolo Soleri

Put your ego aside and play as a team. — Sonny Bono

You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are. — Sathya Sai Baba

Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse. — Saru Singhal

Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life. — Dada Bhagwan

What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego. — Jim McGrath

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it. — Mike Tyson

Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone. — Rajneesh

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate. — Frederick Lenz

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had. — Gary Vaynerchuk

My ego is sated. — George Michael

Art has more ego to it than what I do. — Eva Zeisel

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can't feed them both. — Zig Ziglar

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

She has a high opinion of herself," Andrea said. "Oh yes. When she gets into a car, her ego has to ride shotgun. — Ilona Andrews

Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms. — Eckhart Tolle

There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role. — Kurt Rambis

Fear, greed, and ego are very expensive monkeys to have on your back while trading. — Steve Burns

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't. — J.D. Salinger

No act is so private it does not seek applause. — John Updike

Ego Check. Damn it. How many would he need in one day? — Gena Showalter

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world. — Tupac Shakur

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important. — RuPaul

Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate. — Craig D. Lounsbrough