Ego Quotes

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My ego only needs a good rhythm section — Miles Davis
Infinity is just time on an ego trip. — Lily Tomlin
My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction. — Janine Turner
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat… — Billy Corgan
Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the… — Joseph Campbell
I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to… — Roger Ebert
That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart. — Ajahn Amaro
As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as… — Ayya Khema
Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve.… — Ayya Khema
The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process.… — Blair Hull
Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social… — Sulak Sivaraksa
Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in… — Douglas Harding
The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm… — Heather Matarazzo
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. — Rajneesh
Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a deep harmony with… — Rajneesh
Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego. — Laozi
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without… — Robert Adams
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,… — Sigmund Freud
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the… — Carl Jung
The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego. — Carl Jung
Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose… — Carl Jung
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him… — Raymond Chandler
I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set… — Carol Alt

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