Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Ocean

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Billy Porter

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

Bill Moyers

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Bill Maher

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Benjamin Hoff

The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.

Bob Marley

Every need got an ego to feed.

Charlie Sheen

Get your egos off the battlefield.

Jane Wagner

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

Alain de Botton

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

Eckhart Tolle

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Eckhart Tolle

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Eckhart Tolle

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

Eckhart Tolle

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Eckhart Tolle

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

Eckhart Tolle

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !

Eckhart Tolle

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

Eckhart Tolle

Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

Ava Gardner

I am deeply superficial.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Billy Crystal

Gentlemen, start your egos.

Bobby Fischer

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Barry Gibb

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Eckhart Tolle

Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Dick Cavett

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

Eberhard Weber

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.