Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
“-Am I allowed to call you Grayson, or have you assumed a new identity as well? -He's Frank.” — Jen Turano Copy Share Image
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Your past does not create your present future, whatever you are made up of RIGHT NOW will create your past. — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“Pain actually steals a lot more than happiness from a person; it steals a part of the identity, of the soul.” — Alka Dimri Saklani, Beyond Secrets Copy Share Image
Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge in life is to discover who you are and the second greatest challenge is being happy, what you have. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous identity is that of victim. Once we see ourselves as victims, we can clearly identify a enemy. Steeped in… — Julie Mertus Copy Share Image
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“1. First, human beings are linguistic beings and, as we’ll show, live in concerns unavoidable for linguistic beings. 2. Second, human beings live… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority,… — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
“You just, like, hate yourself? You hate being yourself?" "There's no self to hate. It's like, when I look into myself, there's… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. And I really was uncomfortable with many members of our community feeling like they had… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
America has an identity crisis. This is a relatively new country compared to the rest of the world, yet it's the bully… — Abby Martin Copy Share Image
“What we usually think of as the self is very temporal and an illusion.” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
I'm so comfortable in my identity as a wrestler that if I never fought, it would never bother me one bit. — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“those who are willing to enter the woods of self-examination in order to retrieve what was never really lost.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Believe in everything you do cause if you don't have self-belief, you'll be clueless. — Shannon Leto Copy Share Image
I had started with Bollywood and then I shifted to Bhojpuri films to create my own identity there. — Ravi Kishan Copy Share Image
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. — William James Copy Share Image
