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Ego Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"The ego hates losing ' even to God."
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"Whatever crimes this man had committed, they weren't as egregious as his inflated self - image."
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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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"I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company."
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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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"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."
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"If we break someone's ego, then we can't be happy. Egoism is his life!"
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"Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren't.What a relief, right?"
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"The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong."
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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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"As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms."
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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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"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."
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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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"Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority."
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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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"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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"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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"He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."
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"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."
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"Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail."
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"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."
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"Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness."
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