Susannah Grant Quotes

To surrender your ego, you have to have one first.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.

Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.

In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.

I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

I have to humble myself.

I have not changed much. I haven't gotten a big ego or anything.