Internet Quote by Charles Seife

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

— Martha Beck

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We can learn not to take things personally, to understand that behaviors are the results of conditioning, and to make conscious efforts to understand…

— Tyler Henry

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

— Sigmund Freud

“if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge…

— Daniel Kahneman

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

— Pema Chodron

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in…

— Martha Beck

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of…

— Deepak Chopra

“In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct. Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day…

— Chitralekha Paul

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

— Franz Kafka

Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with…

— Roy Baumeister

“...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If a person learns to enjoy and find…

— Csikszentmihaly