I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination.… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“One's true work is never merely 'my work,' but humanity's work. It's not really self-expression, unless by 'self' we mean it with… — Laurence G. Boldt Copy Share Image
“Part of my identity for as long as I can remember is being a baseball player. If I'm not that anymore, then… — J. Sterling Copy Share Image
When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wish my childhood had been less obsessed with the question of why we are here. But that must be the… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
“The cold reality of what he is ― what I am ― sets in like cement and our former selves have been… — Kat Kruger Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.” — Martha MacCullough Copy Share Image
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there… — Al Duncan Copy Share Image
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
With the rise of identity politics, the expression of naked prejudice against members of a supposedly privileged group has become mainstream. — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal… — Lacey Mosley Copy Share Image
I think unless we have an honest conversation about race and identity in this country, we're never going to get anywhere. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen how beautiful you are? well if you never did then you should start looking at yourself from the… — Dumi Copy Share Image
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All things arise because of their interdependence, and that is why nothing has a separate, independent identity.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The One who attains the awareness that, 'This is not my inherent nature;' He constantly has the awareness of the Self and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
We live a life that have us ignoring our true gifts and talents while performing assigned or inherited roles instead, and so… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our eauty so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image