Bad behavior Quote by Heidi Priebe

“That’s why I called my last book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, because that’s the greatest habit we have to break—thinking, feeling, and…

— Joe Dispenza

“Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my life, my history as an abused child…

— John Elder Robison

“Worst of all, your sense of self becomes a monument to someone else’s bad behavior”

— Steven Stosny

“A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what’s right, and earning your own self-respect.”

— David Schnarch

“You must detach yourself from the stereotypical life to live an effective one”

— Sunday Adelaja

“With a self-centered attitude, you become distanced from others, then distrust, then feel insecure, then fear, then anxiety, then frustration, then anger, then violence.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

— Mark Epstein

“It’s when life starts going wrong, when things start being horrible ,that you first realize that life isn’t like anything in a book You…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“The teeny-weeny habit of finding constant fault with yourself -- often disguised as a never-ending quest for self-improvement -- gets in the way of…

— Catherine Carrigan

“Others will always show you exactly where you are stuck. They say or do something and you automatically get hooked into a familiar way…

— Pema Chödrön

“Any time you start thinking that being tough on yourself will make you better, you give your inner critic a foothold in your life…

— Dani Shugart

“I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.”

— Nina Simone