Pema Chodron Quotes

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

I discovered myself!

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.

I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.