Chosen Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

— Jean Piaget

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is…

— Antonio Damasio

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

— Marianne Moore

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

— Maxwell Maltz

“Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the…

— T.F. Hodge

What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.

— Ann Landers

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our…

— Richard Bach

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of…

— Antonio Damasio

“When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild.”

— Dada Bhagwan

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

— B. F. Skinner

“A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.”

— Ralph Alfred Habas

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

— Joseph Pilates