Ego Quotes - Page 33

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

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

If your love leads to misery, it was from the ego. If your love leads to a beautiful benediction, a blessedness, it was from nature. If your friendship, even your meditation, leads you to misery, it was from the ego. If it were from nature everything would fit in, everything would become harmonious. Nature is wonderful, nature is beautiful, but you have to work it out.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.

As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you. And that's not true.

We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

I think most actors . . . We are insecure, in general. I think to be an actor, you need to have an ego, but then, our ego is our worst enemy.

All my compatriots are asses compared to me.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

Your language, dear," Victoria reproved gently. "A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego." Keiley paused. "With a two-by-four?" she asked. Victoria's lips pursed a smile tugged at her lips. "Only as a last resort," she murmured humorously. "And never in public.

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.