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Ego Quotes
"A high self-esteem can quickly deteriorate into egotism, arrogance, and an over-confidence that can backfire and turn people off."
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"Whatever crimes this man had committed, they weren't as egregious as his inflated self - image."
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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
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"No act is so private it does not seek applause."
37
"What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher."
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"There was an image in my mind-an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a man. It wasn't like this. It was always at night with candles flickering lazily, music filling the air with a sexy melody, and maybe a bubble bath. But no. It was infinitely better, and there was no froo froo, stereotypical scene that played out. It was incredible. Brilliant. Amazing. Indescribable, really. Like all the planets in the galaxy aligned for a perfect moment in time. As if this was the beginning of time. From now until the rest of eternity, everything finally had meaning."
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"The ego hates losing ' even to God."
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"I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company."
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"Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Venerable One, I'm afraid it might befall me that my ego would be pacified and liberated only seemingly, only illusorily, that in reality it would survive and grow great, for then I would make the teaching, my discipleship, my love for you, and the community of the monks into my ego!"
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"When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about."
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"Your Ego tells you that you were wronged and it validates your separation. Your Higher Self tells you that you were blessed and it validates your expansion."
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"If we break someone's ego, then we can't be happy. Egoism is his life!"
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"As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms."
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"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."
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"If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you."
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"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
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"He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."
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"He had the vanity to believe men did not like him " while men simply did not know him."
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"If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!"
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"Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail."
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"It's natural to think of one's own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative we are always the central character. Thoughtful people try to overcome this compulsion, but they usually fail (in fact, trying makes it worse). In a commencement speech at Kenyon College, David Foster Wallace argued that conquering the preoccupation with self is pretty much the whole objective of being aliveS-Sbut if we are to believe Wallace succeeded at this goal, it must be the darkest success imaginable."
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"Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren't.What a relief, right?"
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"What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation."
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"Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?"
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"The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries."
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"How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding."
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"And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted, and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked."
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"The ego survives only in conflict. Peace is the death of the ego."
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"He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him-everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another."
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"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."
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"The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo ' even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future."
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"It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind."
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"Ruthless destruction of an ego is a rather simple matter. Preserving the host deprived of an ego is a more delicate affair. How does a person engage in momentous battle with the self while simultaneously struggling to maintain their cerebral, emotive, and spiritual equilibrium in the thin air of consciousness? How assiduously does an agitated mind need to work in order to achieve the elusive degree of emotional and mental quietness that I seek?"
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"The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong."
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"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."
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