In truth, I’m not my body, my race, religion, or other beliefs, and neither is anyone else. The real self is infinite… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the… — Julie Carmen Copy Share Image
The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“We are all individuals as one within the cosmic collective. Each a single droplet in the sea of humanity. We all think… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I was really inspired by my own experience, and specifically my own identity crisis but larger than that, I also wanted to… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I cannot recite Hanuman chalisa at home and wear a skull cap outside just to attract votes. It is my responsibility that,… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have ever travelled so many of the wrong roads if I really knew God and who He really was too… — Cynthia Garrett Copy Share Image
Many in the trans community are fed up with L.G.B.T. organizations that continue to erase trans identity or just give lip service… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“She wanted to leave her noisy questing “self” behind in that pool—not by tumbling in, like Narcissus, but by rising up. The… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
Places do not lose their identity, however far one travels. It is the heart that begins to erode over time. The face… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“My sense of self has expanded and contracted like a schizophrenic accordion. I have questioned everything, and I have felt nothing. I… — Sera J. Beak Copy Share Image
“Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As we live our human lives, let us be like the water. Let us be conscious of the flow. Let us not… — Tom Barrett Copy Share Image
“After we eat of the Apple of Knowledge, however, all of us start to be aware of ourselves, and our consciousness starts… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“Women, even the most oppressed among us, do exercise power. These powers can be used to advance feminist struggle. Forms of power… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Death is not the consummation of oneself but just the end of oneself. Before the self vanishes nothing really is, and that… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Woman's fear of the female Self, of the experience of the numinous archetypal Feminine, becomes comprehensible when we get a glimpse -… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“In his teachings, Kongtrül Rinpoche demonstrates with uncompromising clarity how the identification with a solid self and the resulting feeling of self-importance… — Dzigar Kongtrül III Copy Share Image
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush… — Kat Cole Copy Share Image
To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and… — Greg Lynn Copy Share Image
“Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image