“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
“Individuality, conceived as a temporal development involves uncertainty, indeterminacy, or contingency. Individuality is the source of whatever is unpredictable in the world…genuine… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
I think that one not only has to make demands on the established group, but one also has to make demands on… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“My specialty is cultural anthropology,” the Professor said. “I gave up being a scholar some time ago, but I’m still permeated with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In 'The Bourne Identity,' I wanted to give the audience the feeling of being in the car with Jason Bourne, not just… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
When my daughter went to school, her last name was mine. The school insisted that her father's name be added to hers,… — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Back to the 1st Person: I'd even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I'd chosen film and… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in… — Mooji Copy Share Image
To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
“We put an extraordinary amount of effort into how we appear, or wish to appear, trying frantically to construct a sense of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“of other women. Oppression is most powerful when internalized and self-imposed. Self-oppression (knowing your “place”) becomes a passport to acceptance by the… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“...afflictions arise from identifying with a false sense of self, whereas great contentment arises from seeing the true nature of things. If… — Karma Lekshe Tsomo Copy Share Image
When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
“We are all storytellers, and if we listen deeply and share honestly, we will find that wonderful feeling of community and wisdom… — Colette Baron Reid Copy Share Image
If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The… — Herbert Lockyer Copy Share Image
Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip… — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
“Egolessness means that the fixed idea that we have about ourselves as solid and separate from each other is painfully limiting. That… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud… — William Barr Copy Share Image
“God is bigger than any difficult circumstances we face, any struggles we experience, any mistakes that threaten to define us. We embrace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“To forget self and identify it with nature is to break down its limitation and to set it at liberty. To break… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
