“It is the body that possesses itself: Owning something means to be able to control it, and selfhood is intimately related to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“As I became older, I was given many masks to wear. I could be a laborer laying railroad tracks across the continent,… — Frank H. Wu Copy Share Image
“And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
“In that same lecture, Kahneman confessed that the outsize power of the remembering self mystified him. “Why do we put so much… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I highlight the importance of self-care and the need to be there for people. I participate in various shows and panels and… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
“I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Forget about self-image and self-judgment. It's about self-love, and no one teaches you that at school. No one teaches you that if… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
“My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British,… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy… — Tara Moss Copy Share Image
Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Identity's a tricky thing, and I feel like when you're in front of people and you're lucky enough to have an audience… — Jesse Rutherford Copy Share Image
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
“Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God, "the face you had… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I've gotten a lot of messages from kids struggling with their identity and sexuality, whether it's because they're in a religious family… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
“is Cosmic life and Cosmic spirit, and at the same time individual life and individual spirit. It is one and the same… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past… Each… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Our opinion is, 'Nobody is at fault.' If someone appears to be at fault, then that is our weakness. The fact that you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“This wish to satisfy someone greater than the Self, to be found acceptable, to belong at last, is a struggle familiar to… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“The delight in the moment and the gay façade become an excuse for absolving the listener from the thought of the whole,… — Adorno Copy Share Image
We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
“Humanism split into three main branches. The orthodox branch holds that each human being is a unique individual possessing a distinctive inner… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“The practice of self-observation mirrors the way in which a mother observes and attunes to her baby. Self-observation is a method of… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“Bburke used to, whenever he went to the city to catch a Yankees game, throw his money around to every homeless man… — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“[I]nternalized experiences of selfhood are linked to autobiographical narratives, which are linked to biographies, legal testimonies, and medical case histories, which are… — Anthony Kenny Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have… — Lillian Wald Copy Share Image