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Highlights tagged "self-concept"
Highlights tagged "self-concept"
“You are allowed to change your mind and you are allowed to change your boundaries.”
—Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish. Highlighted
# boundaries # self-concept # self-care
“Your self care is your responsibility, and your responsibility only.”
—Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish. Highlighted
# self-care # self-concept
“I'm going to get my needs met and I'm not going to expect others do it for me.”
—Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish. Highlighted
# self-care # boundaries # self-concept # twenties
“There’s no space for leisure in life. You’re either going up or down, end of story. And at a certain point in your life, you have to decide what you want to do with your time.”
—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept # character
“In the 21st-century, careers and lives don’t roll off an assembly line. We have to put the pieces together ourselves.”
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# creativity # perspective # goals # twenties # self-concept # liminal-space
“When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier to not to know, not to choose, and not to do. But it isn’t.”
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept # goals # twenties # creativity # perfectionism
““How are you free? You have free time during the day when most everyone you know is working. You’re living on the edge of poverty. You can’t do anything with that time.””
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# self-concept # liminal-space # perspective
“Twentysomethings who take the time to explore and also have the nerve to make commitments along the way construct stronger identities. They have higher self-esteem and are more persevering and realistic. This path to identity is associated with a host of positive outcomes, including a clearer sense of self, greater life satisfaction, better stress management, stronger reasoning, and resistance to conformity—all the things Helen wanted.”
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# twenties # goals # self-concept # gumption
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# insignificance # perspective # self-concept
“The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# self-concept # growth # learning # perspective # resentment # conservatism # politics
“It is a popular modern idea. That the inner us is something different to the outer us. That there is an authentic realer and better and richer version of ourselves which we can only tap into by buying a solution. This idea that we are separate from our nature, as separate as a bottle of Dior perform is from the plants of a forest.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# honesty # insignificance # habits # self-concept
“But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# memory # self-concept # self-experiments
“My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. ... I never knew how many of her oddities had sprung from grief and how many from her own inherent nature.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# self-concept # parents # grief
“You are psychologically incapable of being able to predict what will make you happy. Your brain can only perceive what it's known, so when you choose what you want for the future, you're actually just recreating a solution or ideal of the past.”
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept # self-experiments
“The synopses we spend so much time writing are for characters we no longer are. … You cannot always make sense of your coexisting truths.”
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept
“When you see somebody else displaying one of these traits, it’s infuriating, not because you inherently dislike it, but because you have to fight your desire to fully integrate it into your whole consciousness. … The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.”
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept # friendship
“The root of the work of being human is learning how to think.”
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept
““Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going.”
—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth. Highlighted
# growth # goals # self-concept # grief
““We’re always looking for that missing piece in ourselves,” said Jungian analyst Jacqueline Wright. “That ideal lover or person that we’re looking for holds a quality that we don’t recognize or express in ourselves.””
—Lisa A. Phillips, Unrequited. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept # friendship
“But your future self shouldn’t be bound to what your past self predicted. So never make plans.”
—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted
# self-concept
“Turn your experiences into stories. A story is the remains of an experience. Make your stories entertaining, so people like to hear them.”
—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted
# self-concept
“You use your past to make your future.”
—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept # self-experiments
“If you go through life without changing anything, what have you done?”
—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted
# self-concept
“Changing the world includes changing yourself. Change your beliefs, preferences, acquaintances, hobbies, location, and lifestyle.”
—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted
# growth # self-concept # self-experiments