“In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'” ThinkingUseEffortBreakIdentityHabitStrategyFamiliarClarityConvenienceSixteenMonitoringBefore And AfterMake Or BreakAuthentic HappinessScheduling Book:The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More Source: The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More
“The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.” HelpingCreativeTeacherIdentityHabitEgoHelping OthersFlexibleResilientWhatever Works Author:Robert Thurman
“The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.” PeopleIdentityChangedHabit Author:Tom Hiddleston
“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.” FeelsPersonsSoulPastGivenLossSecretIdentityHabitPhotographerOneselfDeedsStealingPrimitiveOur PastEmbarrassingRevealingPrivate Things Author:Dave Eggers
“For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.” PeopleLongEnoughInterestBornPathIdentityHabitDegreesLong TimeShadowScaredShadeAccustomedSeemingProminentNarrow Path Author:Charlotte Bronte
“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.” WorldHandsIdentityHabitFeaturesGesturesVesselAnagrams Book:The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Source: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox