Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

What will the world be quite overturned when you die? – Epictetus

Mastery passes often for egotism. – Johann von Goethe