Selfreflection Quotes

“Your life plan must reflect your wants, needs, and wishes—not anyone else’s. If you live your life on someone else’s plan, you might just hit someone else’s goals and not be happy.”
― Jay Zigmont, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing

“Only you can find the good things at your worst moments.”
― Dzigar Kongtrül III, It's Up to You: The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path

“You will smile at my allusion; but I will disclose a secret. I have often attributed my attachment to, my passionate enthusiasm for, the dangerous mysteries of ocean, to that production of the most imaginative of modern poets. There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking; a workman to execute with perseverance and belief in the marvelous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (Annotated, Large Print)

“A powerful way to cope when you are being drawn back to the Standard LifeScript is to ask yourself: Whose voice is telling me I need to do this?”
― Jay Zigmont, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing

“Having a physical appearance stunned him; he was baffled by his own unity. He got distracted from himself all the time. He did live in the present. He would put himself down mentally for living in the past or anxiously in the future. But no. His head inhabited a parallel life.”
― Bernardo E. Lopes, Dona

“Chris Argyris called this the uncovering of the non-learning theories-in-use, which protect our egos but get in the way of our being truly effective (especially in difficult conversations with others). Choose learning over knowing
The message is the same. Pause to challenge the automatic thoughts that cause you pain and embarrassment. Next, reframe those thoughts to allow you to choose learning over knowing. To look outward and find energy and joy from seeing what you missed. At the core of the reframing task lie the words we use to express our thoughts, privately and aloud. Am I failing, or am I discovering something new? Do I believe I should have done better—and I’m bad for not having done so—or do I accept what happened and learn as much as I can from it? Am I okay with the discomfort that comes with new experiences? Will I give myself permission to be human? Permission to learn?”
― Amy C. Edmondson, The Right Kind of Wrong

“As the comic strip character Pogo purportedly said, we have met the enemy and he is us. Our distorted, unrealistic expectations for avoiding all failures are indeed the culprit.”
― Amy C. Edmondson, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

“Sometimes you just have to quit talking. Sometimes you have to disappear. Sometime you have to burn bridges. Sometimes you have to do what it for the best. Sometimes you have to be a loaner. Sometimes you need to forget. Sometimes you just need not to seek forgiveness. Sometimes you have to do what is right.”
― unknown author

“All our mistakes lead to losing someone, and the pain of realizing that loss is the greatest lesson we can learn." - Nihal”
― Nihal Musthafa

“I wish I could show childhood me what I’m up to because I think she would be proud and think I am a badass. I also think she would be relieved. — Cecilia, twenty-five, married”
― Jay Zigmont, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing

“It is possible I might regret being Childfree, but it is also possible that I might regret not being an astronaut (and neither is a choice for me).”
― Jay Zigmont, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing

“The choice (or not by choice) to not have children is complex for most.”
― Jay Zigmont, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing

“Even when we consciously decide to live a different life, we may find ourselves drawn back to the norm due to the power of the Standard LifeScript.”
― Jay Zigmont, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing

“The core question of your life plan is simple: What do you want to be when you grow up?”
― Jay Zigmont, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing

“The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates”
― Wren Avery, The Child She Left Behind: A Psychological Thriller: A Mother's Search Collides With a Global Nightmare

“From where I sit, others’ lives seem full and happy.
But maybe the difference lies not in the life they live—
but in the way they carry it.”
#AuthorQuotes #QuietReflections #LifeQuotes #WritingFromTheHeart #SelfReflection #SoulfulWords #PersonalGrowth”
― Rowena Teresa S. Mariano

“I navigate life unfeignedly, with a heart that speaks in truths, a mind that seeks depth, and a soul unafraid of the weight of its own story.”
― D'los Ángeles

“To start something new, it's important to clear away the old because what we leave unfinished often returns as regret.”
― Swastik Nayak

“Even in endings, we arrive closer to ourselves.” – Awakened and Breaking Free #spiritualawakening”
― Philomena Petersen, Awakened and Breaking Free: Reclaiming Power and Resilience in a Flawed System