The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest contacts with the whole (external) world and is… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think that 'minimalist' is a useful label for other people to identify me, but from my standpoint, I doesn't necessarily have… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with projecting this false self to the outside world during these early striving years, so long as it… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style.… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to be that huge a commitment that would create, you know, some kind of really powerful constituency. But the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“narcissistic personality disorder, or NPD. According to DSM-IV, NPD is distinguished by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us to futile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view… — Linda Fisher Thornton Copy Share Image
The new ground that you form in your living is a new self, a new self that isn't at all of the… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
“Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.” — Abraham Ruiz Copy Share Image
“Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity.… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours. — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.” — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
I was going through this identity crisis of being like, 'I don't think I want to be a doctor anymore.' And, 'oh… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Know thyself' is a highly overrated piece of wisdom. As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Fashion can really give you an identity if you're looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the… — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
