Quotes About Ego In Relationship

#1. My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Cleveland Abbe

#2. Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Mark Matthews

#3. Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.

Rajneesh

#4. The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity
the incredibly outgoing energy
of righteous rage.

June Jordan

#5. The Ego is the "container" for our life. The Ego creates a boundary between us and everything else and mediates our relationship with the world.

Carol S. Pearson

#6. Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.

Evan Sutter

#9. A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Ruth J. Simmons

#11. Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

John Battelle

#12. She wasn't entertainment for him. He
didn't need her to make him laugh or bolster his ego or to figure him out so he wouldn't have to. A lot of men who said they were looking for a relationship really wanted a combination sex buddy, therapist, and mirror.

Eileen Wilks

#13. A relationship never dies a natural death. It is murdered by ego, attitude & ignorance.

Srinivas Shenoy

#14. 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

#15. Said, sounding a little nervous. Skipping ahead to Everyday Necessities. Try your best to buy reused.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

Alan Greenspan

#17. The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

Joel Barlow

#19. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#20. 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

#21. Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate.

Ashish Patel

#22. It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

David Sanborn

#23. Don't feed your ego with my soul.

Arzum Uzun

#24. Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

Diane Ackerman

#25. Marriage is a commitment that requires effort and communication. Sometimes, it also requires a little creativity. Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. So be the bigger person skip the 'E' and let it 'Go'.

Pravin Agarwal

#26. What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless ... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.

Dave Genn