“We may have been stuck in our hurt, hang-up or harmful habit for so long that it has become part of how… — Zondervan Copy Share Image
Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Accepting reality is easier than creating identity from scratch or rebuilding a reputation, yet can be a challenge. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“But -- my dear, my heart is BROKEN! I have seen the perfect Peter Wimsey. Height, voice, charm, smile, manner, outline of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
“To survive in China you must reveal nothing to others. Or it could be used against you … That’s why I’ve come to… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored.… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“The distortion of relationship which says “I disagree with you, so I must destroy you” leaves us as Black people with basically… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is going to come under Your control, nor should anything be taken into control, just keep Knowing. 'You' [the Self] are… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Be who you are not what others want you to be. You are perfect as you are. Know your self worth. Those… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
My father is pretty much a self-made man, and I am proud of that. He was born in Patiala and crossed the… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
You can crawl within and start self critiquing or you can stand firm knowing you are from authentic intentions and your integrity… — Danielle Maylyn Copy Share Image
“If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“With concentration on nonself—the reality that we do not have a separate self—we become aware that suffering is there not only in… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To honor his name, because your name is your identity | more respect than his surname to his name, the surname of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I'm finding my self worth. At 21, this is the very beginning, even though I feel so old. This is the time… — Jordyn Woods Copy Share Image