Identity Quote by Alain de Botton

“It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner…

— Theodor Reik

“love is indirectly proportional to ego”

— Arya vidhan

“There is only one power which can from within undermine egoism at the root, and really does undermine it, namely love, and chiefly sexual…

— Vladimir Solovyov

“Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“when ego swells;the soul shrivels”

— Gen.Ayaz

“Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed.”

— Thomas Hardy

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our…

— Germaine Greer

“There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.”

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“Here, we are setting out to do something. We have a goal, a calling, a new beginning. Every great journey begins here—yet far too…

— Ryan Holiday

“Love is horribly stable, and each of us is only allotted a certain portion of it, a ration. It is capable of appearing in…

— Justine Laurence Durrell

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

— Theodor Adorno

“It is indeed strange that we find it so difficult to welcome...the blissful nature of the loss of the power of selfhood—a power it…

— Leo Bersani