“I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on. — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained. — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
“Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
In our tiny town, my father wasn't a scientist - he was the scientist, and being a scientist wasn't his job: it… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really… — Pantha du Prince Copy Share Image
“One of the most remarkable features to be noted as we survey the scale of animal life is that as we go… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Drastic change creates an estrangement from the self, and generates a need for a new birth of a new identity. And it… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave… — Jane Heap Copy Share Image
I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he… — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
Used to think nothing of myself then I realized I'm what I make myself but I liked it more when I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only… — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
If I'm not being myself in my music, I'm getting up on stage every night and lying to myself; it would be… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't need to be in a relationship to be complete. You're complete because of who you are not because of who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm driven by making an impact on the individuals I interact with and leveraging my success to give back to the world. — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt… — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
“I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become… — Laura Resau Copy Share Image
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Life is a challenge to see the world--and self--in a broader way, that opens up vistas of hope for positive change and… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable. — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
