I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“As love is a delicate dance between holding and letting loose, it is a constant pursuit of sharing and growing together without… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“I play songs that have only the pattern of my self in them and you hum along suporting me. You are the… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
“Why do we go on and on about individuality being the very essence of who we are, and then accept a degrading… — Bradley Trevor Greive Copy Share Image
I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person...… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
“Your ego identity, the attachment to the bogus idea you have of yourself prevents you from expressing your authentic talent and who… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
“It is but few who hear about the Self. Fewer still dedicate their lives to its Realization. Wonderful is the one Who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have two little kids and I enjoy watching movies with them, and I can't watch every movie with them. Sometimes it's… — Rob Letterman Copy Share Image
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When it comes to recruiting people for the secret world, what the recruiters are looking for is pretty much what I had.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“In a world lost in the darkness of ignorance, deception and confusion, a self-educated human being with integrity is the Light.” — Gavin Nascimento Copy Share Image
“No-one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she had become my definition. Her gaze softening my centre so… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You're your truest self when you're young, and when somebody says something, and you're like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not normal,' you shut… — King Princess Copy Share Image
“Our ‘ego’ or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
Chefs have always been leaders, but now, because of social media and the evolution of the chef identity, we have a voice… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
One has to become absolutely responsible for oneself, and then one can understand the mind. If you go on depending on others,… — Osho Copy Share Image
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
It's unwise to say nation-states wanting to retain their national identity in Europe should be dissuaded or stopped from doing so. Nationalism… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity. — Camila Mendes Copy Share Image
To strive to be perfect is going down the road of self-destruction. To strive to be yourself is going down the road… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such… — Tom Boellstorff Copy Share Image
The rise of ISIS, the orgy of identity politics, and the political changes they brought - how could Obama not see that… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
