The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
“was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past. — Tan Twan Eng Copy Share Image
You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Though films have established me as an actor, dance has given me an identity and a boost to my career, and I… — Amruta Khanvilkar Copy Share Image
At every stage of life, our inner self requires the nurturance of loving people attuned to our feelings and responsive to our… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“who are you really? you are not a name or a height, or a weight or a gender you are not an… — m.k Copy Share Image
“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born… — W.E.B. DuBois Copy Share Image
I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“If you go to the craft market you will see them everywhere. They represent the mix of cultures and races here in… — Sandra Rodriguez Barron Copy Share Image
I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“So many of us resist the truth that self-care is not self-indulgence, but it is a fact that you cannot pour from… — Lily Burana Copy Share Image
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the… — James Norman Hall Copy Share Image
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self -… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“Thousands of individuals unknowingly contribute to the creation of our lives. Over the years, these serendipitous exchanges made imprints on my mind… — Kristin S. Kaufman Copy Share Image
“nteraction with a fellow human being, especially one who can understand what you’re going through and direct your awareness to the solutions… — Haider Al-Mosawi Copy Share Image
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling,… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
I'm the master of my despair, in this world field of sinner's. I, my self was one of them, but as a… — Jerry May Copy Share Image
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn't just your paycheck, it's your identity. It… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual.… — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves… — Joan E. Biren Copy Share Image
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Knowing that I help the younger generation maybe discover their gender identity or start the conversations within the households, is really important… — G Flip Copy Share Image
I think there's a large worry in queer communities about imitating straight people, when queerness has its own identity and maybe can… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
“If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Three broad mechanisms—identity claims, feeling regulators, and behavioral residue—seemed to connect people to the spaces that surrounded them.” — Sam Gosling Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
