And I wasnt playing a role I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your self is your pure consciousness, which flows as it likes. Your personal self is the way you perceive yourself and the… — The Unthered Soul Copy Share Image
“Lovers of transpersonal power seek the empowerment of selves and others—realizing that power and freedom are sisters.” — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
“Words are not simply an expression of the self; they help to create the self. In struggling to say what we are,… — Thomas S. Kane Copy Share Image
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“Here is the major life question: Does our experience create our identity ... or does our identity create our experience?” — Steve Backlund Copy Share Image
“You can let the life and the family you were born into dictate the definition of your very being, regardless of what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“... no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all ears and systems. The period you grow up in… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
“The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me.… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence,… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“being “in Christ” says more about me than my nationality, my ethnicity, my gender, or my status. It is an identity of… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.” — Imani Shola Copy Share Image
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this. — Mooji Copy Share Image
“Acting egotistically as ‘I am this body’, with no consciousness of the self, is karma. But anything done ‘dramatically, as the Knower-Seer,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I cant brag about myself and how my inner self fails daily and how my heart is doubtful sometimes... but I guess… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
If you give on failure,it is defeat of your inner self. If you fight away odds its strength of your inner self.Its… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as… — Hakuin Ekaku Copy Share Image
Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of… — Jim Fixx Copy Share Image
