Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Rumi

Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

Tom Robbins

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Thomas Carlyle

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Sigmund Freud

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

Sigmund Freud

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

Sigmund Freud

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Steven Tyler

I can't live off the ego.

Robbie Williams

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

Tariq Ramadan

We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

Sylvester Stallone

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

Taylor Hackford

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Joss Whedon

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Joss Whedon

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

Kim Kardashian

Brunette is who I am obviously, it's my core. Blonde Kim is this alter ego; she has a vibe to her that I love.

Ramakrishna

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

Ramana Maharshi

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

Ramana Maharshi

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises

Ramana Maharshi

The source of the ego is God.

Ramana Maharshi

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

Radhanath Swami

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

Lily Tomlin

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

We got a sense of renewal. Our kids go out there, all 15 guys, and nobody wanted to be the one to let the other ones down. They really have a 'One Team' concept, put their ego to the side.

I've played too long to let my ego get in the way, or my pride -- to say, 'I have to play shortstop' or something like that. You know what? I played 10 years at shortstop. Can I still play there? Yeah. But we have a good shortstop here.

Henry Bibby

We talk a lot, and he talks about winning. He's not talking about minutes played or how many shots he got. He's a winner. That's the key with Mike. His ego doesn't get in the way.

Sathya Baba

The Sun has no ego-sense or a sense of possession and property, and no will or want or wish.

Pankaj Mishra

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.

Martin Buber

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

Martin Buber

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

Quentin Crisp

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.