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“Habits are the outward expression of our will. Mindset is the inner state of the self. Habits are visible; mindset is underlying. When mindset is strong, the will rests, and good habits arise naturally.”

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“To be unable to connect with your own past through the act of memory must feel like you were losing a connection to the building blocks of your very identity. If we are the sum of our experiences, what do we become when those experiences vanish from our mind? Do we ourselves eventually disappear?”

Self Memory Dementia Alzheimer

Book:Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

Source: Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“On the set Norma Jeane was quiet and respectful and watchful and shrewd. Now she'd solved the puzzle of her own role, it fascinated her to see how others had solved, or were struggling with, theirs. For acting is the solving of a succession of puzzles of which no single puzzle can explain the others. For the actor is a succession of selves held together by the promise that in acting all losses can be restored.”

Self Loss Acting Solve Puzzle Role

Book:Blonde

Source: Blonde

“I am seeking whatever is painful in my body, whatever is joyful. While seeking, I may never find myself. While seeking, I have no idea what form I may take or whether anyone, including myself, will ever like what I write. Most of writing feels like walking in the dark. I'm reminded of what Donald Barthelme said: The writer is that person who, embarking upon her task, does not know what to do.”

Writing Self Identity

Book:Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

Source: Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

“Some versions of me handled it better. None of them were real.”

Self Fiction Identity Artificial Intelligence Introspective

Author:Anna Kader

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.”

Self

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Consciousness is not lost suddenly; it is slowly outsourced — until the self functions without awareness, and calls it survival.”

Self Consciousness Media Identity Modern Life

Book:The Final Consciousness: Media, Awareness, and Existence

Source: The Final Consciousness: Media, Awareness, and Existence

“The relentless pursuit of consumer goods feeds the entitled 'false self,' while the insecure and empty inner self remains anxious and wounded—driven then to buy even more goods to cover up the inner emptiness. The empty self seeks the experience of being continually filled up in an attempt to combat the growing alienation.”

Self Philosophy Psychology Mental Health Emptiness Materialism Narcissism Consumerism Alienation Modern Society

Book:Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth

Source: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth

“The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing…. It is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something, which does not represent your life and talent.”

Love Giving Self Identity Gifts Presents

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.”

Love Life Struggle Cry Succeed Safe You Laugh Fail Survive Push

Book:The Dead-Tossed Waves

Source: The Dead-Tossed Waves

“Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?”

Love Romance Beauty Selection

Book:The Crown

Source: The Crown

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