All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. - Sigmund Freud

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.