“ If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term to describe persons who were self-absorbed, and psychoanal… Donald W. Black
“ ...some people become hypercritical when stressed.Then again, he hadn't been stressed last week. She giggled, remembering how he'd instructed her on the proper way to fold hand towels. Talk about nitp… Cherise Sinclair
“ I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me. Steve Maraboli
“ If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘re… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we truly comprehend the immaculate beauty of every day unfolding before… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ There came a time in my life when I had to admit to myself that I have some very clear narcissistic tendencies. Ironically, it occurred during the writing of my book The Emotionally Abused Woman. As I… Beverly Engel
“ We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant o… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature. Craig D. Lounsbrough
