Pema Chodron Quotes

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.