“The friend is not another I, but an otherness immanent in selfness, a becoming other of the self. At the point at… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
What I want is to talk about how someone raised Muslim struggles with the same stuff that everyone else theoretically could. Obviously,… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“There is, however, one way of speaking that I've tried to avoid. Rather than refer to someone as "a homosexual," I've taken… — Wesley Hill Copy Share Image
you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
When I came to Nashville, I was sort of experimenting with a new identity, experimenting with the country world and country writers.… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
“You have probably worked your entire life to create a sense of identity around your job, your family, your hobbies, or your… — Kimberly Giles Copy Share Image
You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they’re circling around a certain… — Tania James Copy Share Image
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
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we… — Bruce Lee 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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
