Richard Rohr Quotes

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are.

When I started snowboarding, I was looking for success to bring me identity. I still love to win, but at the same time, I don't need the X-Games to show me who I am.

I know what my identity is.

I don't like seeking all the attention. When you start doing stuff like that, it gets into your head, you are not being yourself.

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really. I feel blessed 'cause I'm doin' all these things, but I'm not satisfied. I still have that feeling like, "Who am I? Who am I to have an ego? Who am I to change up and act like some Hollywood character?" Technically, in the grand scheme of things, I haven't done anything.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

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

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

As the ego becomes strong it starts surrounding intelligence like a thick layer of darkness. Intelligence is light, ego is darkness. Intelligence is very delicate, ego is very hard. Intelligence is like a roseflower, ego is like a rock. And if you want to survive, they say - the so-called knowers - then you have to become rock-like, you have to be strong, invulnerable. You have to become a citadel, a closed citadel, so you cannot be attacked from outside. You have to become impenetrable.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.