Rhea Seehorn Quotes

My ego has been in check for a long time.

I'm going to try to put less pressure on myself, but I know how easy it is to say that rather than to feel it, but that's how it is.

What helps me when someone puts me down or aims to offend me is to not take what they say personally. I try my best to not internalize their comments.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

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

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

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

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

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

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

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

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.

I definitely get down on myself. I needed to work on my self-talk. The same way you do footwork drills and cardio training, I had to do self-talk training.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.