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The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego. — Carl Jung

Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. — Karl Lagerfeld

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows. — Idries Shah

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

Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are. — Evita Ochel

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal

Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains. — Ramana Maharshi

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

When ego trumps fidelity, the end result is inevitably betrayal - betrayal of country, of kith or kin, or of self. — Brian Andrews

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

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness. — John O'Donohue

Ego makes you lonely. — Pavan Choudary

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state. — Doreen Virtue

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

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

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt. — Deepak Chopra

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. — George Michael

I? This is the very root of all evil. — H.M. Forester

People are a soul-ego-spacesuit. — Stefan Emunds

The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal. — Joe Rogan

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds. — Edward De Bono

Winning or losing achieves the same result
change. — Shannon L. Alder

Fear inhibits our ability to understand,
doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth. — I. Alan Appt

If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism cannot be obtained. — Dada Bhagwan

You know men. We have delicate egos. — Cassandra Clare

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them. — Criss Jami

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. — Dada Bhagwan

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

Anything or everything treated as a 'Problem' on planet earth, falls under the clause of mankind's Self' Ignorance , Ego & Immaturity. — Vishal Chipkar

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

Only by renunciation of the desire to manipulate and control will the ego melt into the Universal Self of Infinite, Eternal Love. — Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

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

The square root of I is I. — Vladimir Nabokov

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

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well. — Timothy Freke

The problem with introspection is that it has no end. — Philip K. Dick

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego. — Vivian Amis

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding. — A.J. Darkholme

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be. — Carlos Castaneda

To be spontaneous is to escape the cage of the ego by trusting that which is beyond the self. — John O'Donohue

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough. — Walter Isaacson

Self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal. — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. — Lord Chesterfield

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

And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt. — Anne Rice

Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most people confuse "self-knowledge" with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone — C. G. Jung

Who is a friend?" his answer was, "A second self (alter ego). — Epictetus

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego. — Lester Levenson

Five of the most dangerous words I know: 'What's in it for me? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important. — William Manchester

In the cosmos of time, there's not a cocksucker in this room who is more than a fart in the wind! — Daniel S. Pena

Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. — Frederick Lenz

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. — Eckhart Tolle

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence. — Dov Davidoff

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing. — Richard Rohr

Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism. — Dada Bhagwan

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality. — Frederick Lenz

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen. — Gary Hopkins

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star. — Shah Rukh Khan

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up. — Rafi Zabor

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred. — Marianne Williamson

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom. — D. Nicole Williams

Listening to your ego brings your vibration down; listening to your higher self brings your vibration up. — Caroline A. Shearer

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — W. H. Auden

If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be. — Jack Kornfield

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not. — Anne Bronte

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation. — Swami Vivekananda

When your intuition speaks, listen. When your ego speaks, shut it up. — Dee Duncan

The human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. — Jose Saramago

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art — Steven Pressfield

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all. — Enza Vita

When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be. — Kamand Kojouri

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. — Kellie Elmore

Ego means lack of self respect — Dinkar Kalotra

Feed your self-esteem; not your ego! — Deborah Brodie

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion. — Luis Marques

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life. — Dawn Gluskin

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'! — T.F. Hodge

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. — Taite Adams

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. — Criss Jami

I'd love to be what I have been. — Raheel Farooq

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. — Joseph Campbell

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit. — Criss Jami

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. — Bell Hooks

Whatever crimes this man had committed, they weren't as egregious as his inflated self-image. — Katherine McIntyre

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self. — Ramana Maharshi