“It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject… — Janis Birkeland Copy Share Image
It's one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive minds. We build up our… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim… — John J. Gilligan Copy Share Image
The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released… — Mrinalini Sarabhai Copy Share Image
Covet those individuals whom you deem 'real.' It is they who will care for you, lift you up, protect you, and covet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think the people run to the polls and vote simply on the basis of identity. Yes, it is a factor,… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child, I always had insecurity or suspicions about my own personal identity. That's why I started going… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
Black identity since the '60s has been a totalitarian identity. It's enforced. And if you don't subscribe to the party line, then… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for as falling, it *flees*… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
“These selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.… — Jack London 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
To me, when you watch a Hitchcock movie and as soon as theBernard Hermannscore comes in, you're aware. You know it's there.… — Ti West Copy Share Image
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Identity negates possibility, denies openness to other life. Identity kills, both metaphorically and very, very literally.” — John Holloway Copy Share Image
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that… — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly,… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference… — Jeff Orlowski Copy Share Image
When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
You are beautiful! Don't let anyone tell you differently. Keep your head high, and find your identity in Christ, not the world. — Rachel Copy Share Image
In my teens, I had no idea about running as a sports event. For me, an orphan, it was not only about… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
“The seductive invitation of metamorphosis - of turning into something other — has continued to suffuse fantasies of identity; on the one… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
We miraculously become what we read. The mind is the sculptor of ones-self, amazingly creating the essence of who we are. — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can’t change who I am, no matter how much I want to. The guilt and the self-hatred is frustrating and I’m… — J.B. Salsbury Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image