narcissistic

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 us.

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you__l ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

I spend my life constantly calling in __maginary_ debts that aren__ owed to me in order to avoid the __eal_ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

You can dress up greed, but you can__ stop the stench.

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

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 listed the symptoms of narcissism, I was amazed to find that I recognized myself in the description of the disorder.It should have been no surprise to me because I come from a long line of narcissists. My mother and several of her brothers suffered from the disorder, as did her mother. For some reason, though, I imagined that I__ escaped our family curse. I should have known that it__ not that easy to.

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 or just plain stupid?

I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.

It__ thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life.