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Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation or set of situations no longer applies to some new situation that comes up, or–the same thing in effect–because they haven’t the imagination to distort the new situation to fit their old role. This happens to parents, for instance, when their children grow older, and to lovers when one of them begins to dislike the other. If the new situation is too overpowering to ignore, and they can’t find a mask to meet it with, they may become schizophrenic–a last-resort mask–or simply shattered. All questions of integrity involve this consideration, because a man’s integrity consists in being faithful to the script he’s written for himself.	“I’ve said you’re too unstable to play any one part all the time–you’re also too unimaginative–so for you these crises had better be met by changing scripts as often as necessary. This should come naturally to you; the important thing for you is to realize what you’re doing so you won’t get caught without a script, or with the wrong script in a given situation. You did quite well, for example, for a beginner, to walk in here so confidently and almost arrogantly a while ago, and assign me the role of a quack. But you must be able to change masks at once if by some means or other I’m able to make the one
— John Barth, The End of the Road
Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation or set of situations no longer applies to some new situation that comes up, or–the same thing in effect–because they haven’t the imagination to distort the new situation to fit their old role. This happens to parents, for instance, when their children grow older, and to lovers when one of them begins to dislike the other. If the new situation is too overpowering to ignore, and they can’t find a mask to meet it with, they may become schizophrenic–a last-resort mask–or simply shattered. All questions of integrity involve this consideration, because a man’s integrity consists in being faithful to the script he’s written for himself.	“I’ve said you’re too unstable to play any one part all the time–you’re also too unimaginative–so for you these crises had better be met by changing scripts as often as necessary. This should come naturally to you; the important thing for you is to realize what you’re doing so you won’t get caught without a script, or with the wrong script in a given situation. You did quite well, for example, for a beginner, to walk in here so confidently and almost arrogantly a while ago, and assign me the role of a quack. But you must be able to change masks at once if by some means or other I’m able to make the one you walked in with untenable. Perhaps–I’m just suggesting an offhand possibility–you could change to thinking of me as The Sagacious Old Mentor, a kind of Machiavellian Nestor, say, and yourself as The Ingenuous But Promising Young Protégé, a young Alexander, who someday will put all these teachings into practice and far outshine the master. Do you get the idea? Or–this is repugnant, but it could be used as a last resort–The Silently Indignant Young Man, who tolerates the ravings of a Senile Crank but who will leave this house unsullied by them. I call this repugnant because if you ever used it you’d cut yourself off from much that you haven’t learned yet.	“It’s extremely important that you learn to assume these masks wholeheartedly. Don’t think there’s anything behind them: ego means I, and I means ego, and the ego by definition is a mask. Where there’s no ego–this is you on the bench–there’s no I. If you sometimes have the feeling that your mask is insincere–impossible word!–it’s only because one of your masks is incompatible with another. You mustn’t put on two at a time. There’s a source of conflict, and conflict between masks, like absence of masks, is a source of immobility. The more sharply you can dramatize your situation, and define your own role and everybody else’s role, the safer you’ll be. It doesn’t matter in Mythotherapy for paralytics whether your role is major or minor, as long as it’s clearly conceived, but in the nature of things it’ll normally be major. Now say something.
— John Barth, The End of the Road
Excessively sweet praise can rot your ego over time.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the time adding salt to wounds we never knew existed and at times creating new ones.
— Aysha Taryam
Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego.
— Richie Norton
You can never totally control your ego, but you can understand it enough to make it control itself by convincing it that you are doing what it wants.
— Charbel Tadros
If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
Arrogance is nothing but Stupidity with an ego.
— Manoj Vaz, Tinsel - Beneath the glitter is the grime
Love is a battle where one has to die for others EGO.
— pavankumarguptha
This conception has influential part in Eckhart Tolle's teaching, where Ego is presented as an accumulation of thoughts and emotions, and only by de-identifying one’s consciousness from it can one truly be free from suffering (in the Buddhist meaning)
— Wikipedia
Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sometimes humility is ego in disguise.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
It’s alright. It’s okay if it’s about your ego. Sometimes it’s got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.
— Crystal Zevon, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
People never talk these days. But their ego talks
— Prerna Sharma
The fragile ego will not understand that the depths of another's words may not always be by them but for them
— Bluenscottish
Being real doesn't mean being reckless, it means allowing La Voz Mitologica, The Mythological Voice, to speak. One does that by shutting off the ego for a while and letting that which wishes to speak, speak.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we truly comprehend the immaculate beauty of every day unfolding before us.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Your ego is your strictest judge.
— Ayn Rand
Self Respect " respects boundaries, yours or other's."Ego" is so full of self, it sees no boundaries.
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Ego is the ultimate killer on a team
— Patrick Lencioni, Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
​You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.
— Ashly Lorenzana
By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.
— Steven Franssen, Make Self-Knowledge Great Again
... life isn’t a battle between us and the rest of the world, but rather a battle to overcome ourselves - our inimitable egos ...
— Renée Paule, Stepping Out of Time
Not me,” you think.
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper
— Sunday Adelaja
Impossible can be possible,if you don't say only I am.
— Mohammed Amjed Khan Abro
Donald Trump is a liar because he is a coward. It is fear and cowardice that make him lie. it is his fragile ego that makes him lie.
— Gizmo, The Puzzled Puppy, What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you live, ego disappears. Life knows no ego, it knows only living and living and living. Life knows no self, no center; life knows no separation. You breathe - life enters into you; you exhale you enter into life. There is no separation. You eat, and trees enter into you through the fruit. Then one day you die, you are buried in the earth, and the trees suck you up and you become fruits. Your children will eat you again. You have been eating your ancestors - the trees have converted them into fruits. You think you are a vegetarian? Don't be deceived by appearances. We are all cannibals.
— Osho, The Journey of Being Human: Is It Possible to Find Real Happiness in Ordinary Life?
The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A person lives a false life whenever they are afraid to make contact with his or her authentic self. A sensitive ego – one that protects a person from pain – can also prevent a person from maturing mentally and emotionally by causing a person to distort truths and refuse to admit unpleasant facts.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We don't know that we don't own or owe Anything (In mathematical terms we are sifar), so keep walking as long as your legs are moving towards the infinite. Your own Ego is the only obstacle in this journey, earlier you get rid of it sooner will you find the infinite peace.
— AnkitMishra
Men are not naturally faithful creatures. They have an ego that is in constant need of stroking and usually anything in a skirt fits that need. I never feel the need to make a man jealous in retribution for his infidelity. I simply pick up the wine and find a new taster...
— Virginia Alison
You should be working on your speech instead of staring,” Rider said, never taking his eyes off his notebook.Paige’s dark eyes flew to me and then narrowed.Heat exploded across my cheeks.“And you should actually be working on, I don’t know, your speech?” Hector grinned as he gestured to his paper, which appeared to have actual words on it. “And please don’t stare at him, Mallory. Because of Paige, his ego is already big enough. He doesn’t need any help.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever
most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.
— Og Mandino, The Choice
Ego destroys everything that love has built.
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
Those who were known as sultans and emperors are gone to dust. Their palaces are now known as ruins. This is ultimate power and commands of nature.
— Aditya Ajmera
Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The process of life, towards the whole truth can only be covered, by absolutely dropping yourself. You can only merge into the whole, if you prepare to lose yourself.
— Roshan Sharma
He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment.
— Ravindra Shukla, A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.
— Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person
—  choose your self-respect & ego.Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations.
if you may edit, edit yourself
— George Spirakis
The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed
— Hadi Farnoud
Arguments should always be held in private. Audiences inflate the ego.
— L.J Vanier
Before reacting to any conflicting situation in life. Ask yourself a simple question: "You want to be happy or you want to be right?
— Aditya Ajmera
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am I?
— Hillel
His ego was as big as an elephant
— Charmaine J. Forde
Ruthless destruction of an ego is a rather simple matter. Preserving the host deprived of an ego is a more delicate affair. How does a person engage in momentous battle with the self while simultaneously struggling to maintain their cerebral, emotive, and spiritual equilibrium in the thin air of consciousness? How assiduously does an agitated mind need to work in order to achieve the elusive degree of emotional and mental quietness that I seek?
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
When your intuition speaks, listen. When your ego speaks, shut it up.
— Dee Duncan
Self Respect " respects boundaries, yours or other's,"Ego" is so full of self, it sees no boundaries.
— Wordions
For beloved cross every pass Worldly affairs slow their pace A flowing brook amidst the grass Flowing tears his face shall trace His ego is shattered glass Self-estranged, himself deface Sense the Divine in spirit and mass If he is truly seeking grace
— Jalaluddin Rumi, دیوان كلیات شمس تبریزی
You see, the truth is no one ever really falls in love with anyone but themselves. Love is a mirror; a reflective surface projecting who we wish we were. What we've all waiting for is someone to come along who will show us something new about ourselves that we can adore. And then, because someone loves us, in turn, we love ourselves. Does that make sense?
— Kathleen Tessaro, The Flirt
Broken GlassI watched herBeardlessWith little ego,FightingOn top ofThe ceiling,Like CinderellaIn high heelsLooking forHer glass slippersNo ties required!!
— Charmaine J. Forde
Keep your identity small.
— Paul Graham
The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One of more cruel punishment methods, if not the most cruel one, to any woman is to completely keep her out of attention, to constantly disconnect her eye connection, or simply not to listen to her. It could automatically destroy her Ego so badly that she could even prefer, from the bottom of her heart, any severe physical punishment to that ‘mild’ punishment, which would mean to be killed by inches for female brain.
— Elmar Hussein
Big egos have little ears.
— Robert Schuller
Don't get too much of an ego, but you're kind of my everything
— Emma Winters, Equal Parts
Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author.
— Grant McLachlan
If becoming "religious" has made you more judgmental, rude, harsh, a backbiter, you need to check if you are worshiping God or your ego.
— Moosa Rahat
Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, or materialist ego of the author.
— Grant McLachlan
God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes...He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is--A purely egoistic cause.
— Max Stirner
Still, Antwerp, the parties, my husband's talks--all of it fed my mind. I'd hardly set down my quill before I took it up again, writing stories unconnected--of a pimp, a virgin, a rogue--strung up like pearls on a thread. ... 'I am very ambitious, yet 'tis neither for Beauty, Wit, Titles, Wealth, or Power, but as they are steps to raise me to Fames Tower.'O minor victory! O small delight! My star began to rise.
— Danielle Dutton, Margaret the First
Our ego occupies so much space, there is little room for anything else.
— Nilesh Rathod, Destiny of Shattered Dreams
There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.
— Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
Fear only what you lost from not sharing
— Freedom Goodbird
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.
— Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of identity.
— Stuart Wilde
Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?
— Shannon L. Alder
Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.
— Julia Cameron, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.
— Eckhart Tolle
One of the most distinctive features of psychosis is its dynamic of externalization. Madness is experienced as being enacted on the subject from without; a person perceives his own unintegrated psychological contents as outer-world creatures and demons who threaten to engulf and physically destroy him. The barriers between inner and outer, subject and object, dissolve so entirely that no boundary remains to protect the ego from the onslaught of this projected unconscious material.
— Victoria Nelson
At work, or anywhere in life, people should be a team, working for the best of all, not protecting individual egos.
— Jay Woodman
Tame that fascinated monster ego when it roars ~ Become infinite Kind Beautiful ~ Be happy ~ smile
— Angie karan
So, Freckles,” he said when I sat down. “Freckles?” I interrupted. “You said I couldn’t call ya, Katie-cat.” I shuddered. “I do have a given name, you know.” “I don’t want to call you what everyone else calls you.” “You don’t?” “Nope.” “Why?” I asked suspiciously. “Because I’m special.” “There goes that ego of yours again.” I held out my arms wide. “Big,” I mouthed.
— Cambria Hebert, Torch
Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact.
— Ken  Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
What’s the matter, Freckles?” he said, pressing a light kiss to the tip of my nose. “What changed?” I blurted out. He drew back. “Changed?” “You seemed like you were trying to keep distance between us before, but after last night…” “I should get a medal for managing to keep my hands off you that long.” “It was only a few days,” I reminded him dryly. “Felt like a lifetime.” “So those first kisses… you liked them?” His eyes widened. “You thought that I didn’t?” “Well, after that you didn’t touch m
— Cambria Hebert, Torch
I never understand why all of us are so stupid. All the time we nurse our spurious and witless ego, while looking deep down inside that we cannot live without talking to our loved ones.
— Aakash Neeraj Mittal, It Wasn't Her Fault
Is this an ego high or a peaceful high?
— Guatama Buddha
Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. “We are too ego-centered,” Suzuki tells Cage. “The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.”Adolescent love gives us the first chance to break the shell. Sexual love makes the ego lose itself in the object it loves. “When the ego-shell is broken and the ‘other’ is taken into its own body, we can say that the ego has denied itself or that the ego has taken its first steps towards the infinite.…The religious consciousness is now fully awakened, and all the possible ways of escaping from the struggle or bringing it to an end are most earnestly sought in every direction. Books are read, lectures are attended, sermons are greedily taken in, and various religious exercises or disciplines are tried.”Suzuki says that sexual love is a vehicle of liberation? A crack in the ego shell? A path to the infinite?At this point, if I were Cage, I would buy the book and take it home.
— Kay Larson
Do you always drink Sprite?” I asked. “Yeah, why?” “I want to buy some for when you visit my place.” Bailey grinned like I had told her she won the lottery. If she kept smiling at me that way, I didn’t think my ego could fit into the restaurant much longer.
— Bijou Hunter, Damaged and the Dragon
If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration.
— Julia Woodman, No Paradox - Living Both In and Outside Of the Matrix: Through Consciously Evolving Our Consciousness [ Theory, Exploration, Tools ]
Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas.
— A.M. McKnight, Goslyn County
Every boss, if you are forgetting, is another human being made of bones and flesh and likes it when his ego gets stroked.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can’t be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
If the ego rules you then the love fails you.
— Akash B Chandran
Educated people, of course, know that perception, cognition, language, and emotion are rooted in the brain. But it is still tempting to think of the brain as it was shown in old educational cartoons, as a control panel with gauges and levers operated by a user — the self, the soul, the ghost, the person, the “me.” But cognitive neuroscience is showing that the self, too, is just another network of brain systems. [C]ognitive neuroscientists have not only exorcised the ghost but have shown that the brain does not even have a part that does exactly what the ghost is supposed to do: review all the facts and make a decision for the rest of the brain to carry out. Each of us feels that there is a single “I” in control. But that is an illusion that the brain works hard to produce, like the impression that our visual fields are rich in detail from edge to edge. The brain does have supervisory systems in the prefrontal lobes and anterior cingulate cortex, which can push the buttons of behavior and override habits and urges. But those systems are gadgets with specific quirks and limitations; they are not implementations of the rational free agent traditionally identified with the soul or the self.
— Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The mind is a lifelong consolidation of experiences and inner dialogue that was invented by self-perception - our ego.
— Renee Cefalu
Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.
— Marty Rubin
All true love and all sacriﬁce arein their essence Nature’s contradiction of the primary egoism andits separative error; it is her attempt to turn from a necessary ﬁrstfragmentation towards a recovered oneness. All unity betweencreatures is in its essence a self-ﬁnding, a fusion with that fromwhich we have separated, a discovery of one’s self in others.But it is only a divine love and unity that can possess in the light what the human forms of these things seek for inthe darkness.
— Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga
There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.
— Neel Burton, Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
Ego is not an enemy to be broken or demolished, as is often portrayed in spiritual literature. We don't want to get rid of the ego, we want to soften it, make it porous and receptive, so information, thoughts, and compassion flow in and out. A healthy ego allows us to have the strength of our convictions yet be open to others. Psychological literature often refers to ego strength - a sureness about ourselves that rests calmly inside, the will to actualize our dreams, or stand fast to our beliefs without worrying about the consequences.By contrast, the rigid or inflated ego is concrete and dualistic - right-wrong, good-bad, friend-foe...It believes the stories we've made up are reality and doesn't realize that they are only the cover over our essence...To deflect fear, the inflated ego dons a mask and becomes artificial in relationships...This leaves us a stranger to ourself and the person we are meeting. In fact, there has been no authentic connection; it's only our personas that have met.
— Charlotte Kasl
Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.
— Sunday Adelaja
The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.
— Kirtida Gautam
EGO will destroy you as soon as possible.
— Kaushal Patel
The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man—and he asks no other man to exist for him.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I’ve always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I’ve always recognized it at once—and it’s the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Share Love and happiness!! Beauty, money, Ego, Property, Materials will matter nothing
— Paul karan
God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I let go of all that I had thought was wounded, for there is no ego to wound, no ego to hold on with; there is only love & freedom to love.
— Jay Woodman
All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s dependence upon men is evil.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.
— Megha Khare, Write like no one is reading 2
The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and unconfined—in which he transcended his own personality and became one with everything he perceived.
— Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening
Sun of himself. All things are his moons.
— Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own
Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole."- Author Serena Jade
— Serena Jade, Marriage: For the Ego or Soul?
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises in individual, when displayed ego and self portrayed images are not recognised by anyone.
— Aditya Ajmera
The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego.
— Sunday Adelaja
Right from the beginning, we were born into a world where the ego rules, but when we came to God and received the new birth, we entered a world where love rules
— Sunday Adelaja
he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Life is never as complex as ego would want you to believe.
— Aditya Ajmera
Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse.
— Saru Singhal
If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for them to be damaged, means castration.
— Jean Baudrillard
Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts.
— Mohsin Ali Shaukat
You said just now, "Don't be so ashamed of yourself, because that's the root of your trouble"––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I visit people, I always feel that I'm really the lowest of the low, that everybody takes me for a buffoon, so I say to myself, why shouldn't I act the fool, I'm not afraid of what any of you might think, because every single one of you is even worse than me. That's why I'm a buffoon, I'm a buffoon born of shame, great starets, of shame. It's anxiety pure and simple that makes me so unruly.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
white middle-upper class guys in highly educated families have a unique burden placed on us to be the hero of every story that we tell. I don’t think it’s merely that we’re self-centered and arrogant, but that we feel like we’re supposed to be in charge, and if we’re not the hero of the story, we’ve somehow failed in our life duty.group
— Morgan Guyton
To base your self worth relative to others is to play a losing game. If you are at the bottom, you will be filled with self-loathing. If you are at the top, you will be filled with self-aggrandizement and ego. This will most certainly be one of your greatest obstacles to achieving whatever degree of mastery you are capable.
— Chris Matakas
High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Mr. Alexander Graham Bell claims to have invented [photophone transmitter], though really it was created through a collaborative effort with Mr. Charles Sumner Tainter. In all honesty,” she said, “a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.
— Kristen Callihan, Evernight
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.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Such an incredible, stupefying realization: I am not, indeed, the center of the universe.Not! Not! Not!And the overwhelming gratitude, the flooding relief that comes from finally being able to give myself the permission to lay down that excruciating, exhausting burden of needing to prove to the world, every waking moment, that I am, indeed, undeniably, irrefutably The Center of the Universe.
— Lionel Fisher, Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude
In life there are often moments when the battle is between a relationship that means a lot and a small yet dangerous three letter word 'EGO'. Don't let this devil win and make you a loser. If there are certain things you would rather not loose then you mighty well not loose them. Remember there is always that thin line between ego and self respect. While you are busy nurturing your ego the relations that matter may feel the need for self respect and break away. It's always your decision on who wins. Your Ego or You.
— Mansi Soni
She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3
When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.
— Osho
You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
When we recognize that our personal good coincides with the Good of everyone, our inner light is turned on: at this point, when a human being becomes a Human Angel, their light, like a beacon, shines all around.The more lights are lit, the more humanity will be enlightened in these dark times, when the world of the ego, driven to its extreme, has begun its dramatic collapse.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.
— Joseph J. Ellis, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
When love speaks it is about “us” or “we”…when ego speaks it is about “I” or “me
— Kemi Sogunle, Love, Sex, Lies and Reality
When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
The more "things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
When we live in the ego, we are human. When we live in the Awareness of the Oneness, we are Human Angels
— Human Angels
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.
— Tennessee Williams
When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
It is the ego's purpose that makes everything seem dis-united and like separate events. The constant purpose is the thread that ties all events together. The script is really a continuous thing, rather than discreet events. I did this next and this happened, then I went there. That is the way it is talked about when the mind believes in sequential time and events. But once we get a sense that there is purpose that ties them all together, that is when the fusion between all the events takes place.
— David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God:  Experiencing A Course in Miracles
hapIf you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass
— Stanley Victor Paskavci
Religion does not mean to worship cows. Religion is within the body of a human being. There is infinite power within this human body and manifestation of that power is Religion. In one sense it is the transformed state of ‘Ego’. Even if you don’t understand it, let me say that by evolution of self a man becomes God ….
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Ego sends a lot of messages through the sub-conscious that do not serve our true nature, even a little bit.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
If you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won't stand in the way of a meaningful apology.
— Unarine Ramaru
In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around—and totally uninspiring
— Wayne W. Dyer, Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling
You can't succeed in any endeavor if your motive is solely selfish- feeding your ego, seeking recognition, fame, etc. Find a lasting motivation...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.
— Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.
— Alan W. Watts, Nature, Man and Woman
If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?
— Donna Lynn Hope
How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.
— Christopher Morris
The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.
— Maharishi Sadasiva Isham, Ascension!: An Analysis of the Art of Ascension as Taught by the Ishayas
It’s natural to think of one’s own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative we are always the central character. Thoughtful people try to overcome this compulsion, but they usually fail (in fact, trying makes it worse). In a commencement speech at Kenyon College, David Foster Wallace argued that conquering the preoccupation with self is pretty much the whole objective of being alive — but if we are to believe Wallace succeeded at this goal, it must be the darkest success imaginable.
— Chuck Klosterman
if that can't be your let that be remain for you but please keep your ego with you
— romance bam
Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.
— Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth
Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.
— Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study
Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn't afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.
— Neal Stephenson, Reamde
Let your work show off for you and not your ego.
— Unarine Ramaru
As if it wouldn’t rain without you...
— Daya Kudari
Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour 'em too much, you make an enemy.
— Huseyn Raza
Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God’s designed him to be.
— Susan Howatch, Mystical Paths
the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others 
— Eckhart Tolle
Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation
— Imran Khan
The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself ...
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.
— Hugh Prather
Ego is like a street urchin, born of fear and wanting and left to its own devices....
— Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
FRACTURED FACTIONSMany cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots
— Kamil Ali
will you be the one reading the book or writing the book
— Abe
I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
The impatient man is his own enemy
—  he slams the door on his own progress.
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
— Idries Shah, The Commanding Self
The createst trick the ego has ever pulled of was to convince you that you need it.
— Can Arel
Love takes just a moment, it is the ego that takes days, months and years.
— Himanshu Chhabra
We all have this restful mind, but sometimes our fears and our ego mind get the better of us and we can’t see it.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear
— Dean Cavanagh
Not all days are same... Not all people remains same... Time and Ego shall deemed guilty for the same....
— Kartik Mehta
[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.
— Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering and useful for cutting glass, they shine with reflected light only. They’re no use at all in the dark
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Remember, Reilly, gossip is just people's insecurity and fear of what they don't really understand," Eilam said. "It is unconsciously propagated to feed their egos." "Doesn't it ever bother you?", Reilly asked as he pulled the top off his yogurt. "I've lived too long to put any stock in the external judgments of others,or to take anything personally.
— S.L. Whyte, Stelladaur: Finding Tir Na Nog
Your ego is laughing at you behind your back.
— John Martin Shepherd
I just didn’t get it—even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one handand a lemon (the moon) in the other,her favorite student (the sun) standing behind her with a flashlight.I just couldn’t grasp it—this whole citrus universe, these bumpy planets revolving so slowlyno one could even see themselves moving.I used to think if I could only concentrate hard enoughI could be the one person to feel what no one else could,sense a small tug from the ground, a sky shift, the earth changing gears.Even though I was only one mini-speck on a speck,even though I was merely a pinprick in one goosebump on the orange,I was sure then I was the most specially perceptive, perceptively sensitive.I was sure then my mother was the only mother to snap,“The world doesn’t revolve around you!”The earth was fragile and mostly water,just the way the orange was mostly water if you peeled it,just the way I was mostly water if you peeled me.Looking back on that third grade science demonstration,I can understand why some people gave up on fame or religion or cures—especially people who have an understandingof the excruciating crawl of the world,who have a well-developed sense of spatial reasoningand the tininess that it is to be one of us.But not me—even now I wouldn’t mind being god, the forcewho spins the planets the way I spin a globe, a basketball, a yoyo.I wouldn’t mind being that teacher who chooses the fruit,or that favorite kid who gives the moon its glow.
— Denise Duhamel
Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Even when we have realized oneness and nothingness, we still have our personal lives to manage, bodies to take care of, and mouths to feed, and you will know which one is yours and which ones are others', so you won't put food into another person's mouth when you are hungry. Also you won't kiss a rattlesnake or hug a cactus no matter how strong an affinity you feel toward them. But at the same time, we know these apparent separations are functional, not fundamental, and should be recognized as such without mistaking one for the other. I would call this apparent separation "functional ego," or you can call it your "character," which is the collection of your beliefs, habits, and other people's expectations.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.
— Shannon L. Alder
I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I." He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. He suddenly recalled how he had once in the past been asked, "Why do you hate so and so, so much?" And he had answered them, with his shameless impudence, "I'll tell you. He has done me no harm. But I played him a dirty trick, and ever since I have hated him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Few approach Nick the rest of the night, I am the only one brave enough to take him his specially made tea. "Thank you", he said barely glancing up at me."You're welcome", I said waiting for him to look up at me but he won't. I have to force myself to say something before the doubt takes me over. " That guy was wrong, but you should have ignored her to begin with. She would have been humiliated enough by that alone. Your ego got in the way of your judgment." I said before walking away proudly.
— Jennifer Loren, The Devil's Eyes
If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
The soul is trapped by the personality/ego.The personality/ego has to have a shift of a higher self-worth, then and only then, can the personality/ego can act on what the soul is saying." Serena Jade
— Serena Jade, Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience
She is a mess, her dress once pulled together long and fresh, now drooping and awkwardly weighted to one side of her head. "What happened? Are you okay?" The women clamor around her.Nick walks out in perfect order and perfect swagger, passing her with a downward glance. "You forgot your panties". He said tossing her underwear onto the table in front of her. After being embarrassingly ignored by the group of debutants, the nearby college boys feel justified by the turn of events and break into hysterics. Slinking out the side door, the mortified women exit without another word.
— Jennifer Loren, The Devil's Eyes
Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.
— Amit Kalantri
there is a fine line between self-confidence and EgoIf you have self-confidence you will know that you are good ,, excellent if you want ,, but you will also know that there is other people as good as you , or not , but some one is good somewhere , and Respect thatbut If you have Ego , you will only see your self as the best , and only you , no one else is good or as good as you , you won't even stand the idea
— Iman Ahmed el sawalhy