My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition. — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
“...over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability. — Doug Berry Copy Share Image
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? — William Law Copy Share Image
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to lose sight on the way to your future, while wandering in the darkness of the past. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun.… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The politics of identity is nothing new, certainly on the American right. What was astonishing during the Reagan Dispensation was the development… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
“Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The nature of the self is just like space: empty, infinitely empty, formless.” — Osho Copy Share Image
“Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life.” — Tal McThenia Copy Share Image
I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female. — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play. — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want. — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image