1,899 Quotes About Ego

Do not assume that someone else’s ego can love you. It cannot. It does not even love the person it resides in. The limit of the ego’s 'love' is to decide that you are a temporary ally and thus it will protect you for the benefit of its own use. Only a soul can accept and return love. Everything else is manipulation. Fragile arrangements. They are, at best, suspicious and, at worst, vicious.

Love says, I have her in the palm of my hands and I will massage away any doubts and any fears until she stands confidently, and securely in my love for her. Ego says, “I have her in the palm of my hands and I will manipulate her until she is weak, fearful and totally dependent on me; only then can I be certain of her love for me. Choose love.

There’s a fine line between boldness & ego, but I'm too drunk on the fine wine of self love to give a stumbling shit about my inability to walk it.

Someone asked me: "Why do you always need to be right?” I asked back for an example of a situation where I was likely wrong but this person became silent. And I had to conclude she had none. Because I was indeed always right, not by need, but as a fact she couldn’t accept.

The only way to have a strong relationship is to treat it important rather than your own ego. Be it any relationship!

You cannot teach an ego to be anything but egotistic, even though egos have the subtlest ways of pretending to be reformed.

Hard egos make for hard falls.

Some people are so arrogant that they remain arrogant even when they are on top of a mountain or in the middle of an ocean.

When we make the choice to surrender, new possibilities for the whole of the relationship open up. We’re able to step outside of ourselves, to drop the ego, our constructs, our defenses and stance to merge into a space of oneness where infinite possibilities exist.