Sigmund Freud Quotes

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

I have an investment in not being crazy. I have a real investment in seeing things straight. This runs counter to that investment, so it required giving up an idea of myself, the idea being that I had control.

I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it's over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice. "I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

you don't love me, you just love my doggystyle

In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you." "I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.