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“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.”
Deepak Chopra
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one”
Joseph Campbell
“The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.”
Lao Tzu
“Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.”
Joss Whedon
“Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.”
Sigmund Freud
“I like the moment when I break a man's ego.”
Bobby Fischer
“A Karma-yogi performs action by body, mind, intellect, and senses, without attachment (or ego), only for self-purification.”
Bhagavad Gita
“You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise”
Leonard Nimoy
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