The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ".

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

When you see the divinity in others, you are Divine. When you see ego in others, you are egoistic.

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

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

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Today, take a break from your ego and don't take yourself too seriously. Enjoy your Spirit and laugh!

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

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