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Ego Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the…
- A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart…
- Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.
- We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our…
- That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with…
More Ego Quotes
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this… — Afrika Bambaataa
- A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to… — Roseanne Barr
- The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. — David Beckham
- If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
- But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They… — Anna Benson
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra
- 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