Ego Quotes - Page 12

• Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Thinking

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• "The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Humility, Buddhism

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• When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Humility, Buddhism

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• You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Crowds

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• Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

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• The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Fame

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• I think it's just recognizing that who you are is not any of the stuff that you have. It's not any of the things of the ego. Coming to that awareness is a very hard thing for most people to do - but that's an excuse. If you tell yourself it's too hard, then you won't take it on. But right now, for most people, it's almost an impossibility to do so, because they're so attached to "I am what I have"; "I am what I do"; "I am what my reputation is"; or "I am all of this material stuff."

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Reputation

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• This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

  Carlos Condit

  Sports, Practice, Mma

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• Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Art, Humility, Mma

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• I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

  Robert Maxwell

  Lasts, Ego Trip, Last Time

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• The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

  Craig Stone

  Bridges, Dolls, Looks

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• I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.

  Jonathan Coulton

  People, Way, Honest

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

  Leonard Jacobson

  People, Clue, Prison

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• The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

  Germaine Greer

  Pain, Frustration, Generosity

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Acceptance, Knowing

  "Concerning the Our Father". "Waiting on God". Book by Simone Weil, Routledge & Kegan Paul edition, p. 153, 1972.

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• I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, Italian, Names

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• By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.92, SCM Press

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• The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Texas, Who I Am

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Wise, Distance, Character

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• In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.

  R. D. Laing

  Believe, Men, Light

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• If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Doors, People, Laughing

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
  [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]

  Plautus

  Truth, Hate, Liars

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• Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Strong, Fall, Oneness

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic

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• I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
  [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Voting, Viva, Politics

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 15, c. 43 B.C..

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• Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fall, Character, Writing

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