Madonna Ciccone Quotes

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

I've given myself a bit more of a break in that I can't say yes to everything. I have to prioritize, and obviously it starts with your children. But I used to be much later on the list. I've started putting myself within a safe distance from that first priority. You just have to remind yourself to not forget about your relationship and to not forget about yourself. And it's interesting, because I have a very fraught relationship with working out.

"What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?" she asked. "To believe that your children will be just like you."

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.

The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.