Quotes by category:Ego

Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine. by Fernando Pessoa

Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

Fernando Pessoa

mines ego feelings

The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

truth-is ego fun

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

ego loneliness people

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

ego architecture stuff

I've been told I have the biggest ego in the world and that it manifests itself when you come to me and say, 'I don't like this' or 'I want a change'... and that I relish that because my ego's so big I think I can solve whatever you throw at me and make it even better. I enjoy the interaction and the challenge.

ego challenges thinking

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in... by Fred Durst

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

great-things ego walks

Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.

Frederick C. Beiser

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The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. C... by Frederick Franck

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

Frederick Franck

Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live bu... by Frederick Franck

Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?

Frederick Franck

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.

remembered individual ego

For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.

women ego believe

Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.

mental-health ego way

You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

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Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

buddhism ego inspire

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.

You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.

buddhism ego choices

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't inter... by Gabriel Macht

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridg... by Gael Greene

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

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