My first book was about grappling with my identity and transitioning medically and socially as a young person. At that point, it… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
A woman is beautiful when she stands out as an individual—it's a woman who has her own style and the confidence to… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths.… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential… — John Galt Copy Share Image
“The truest story - the one that will always be truest - is that I am a human being, being human. Sometimes,… — Laura McKowen Copy Share Image
“Permanent Knowledge is itself the Self indeed. The Self is Knowledge and that indeed is the absolute Self. There is no need… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented.… — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
“In itself all publicity disturbs a man’s natural equilibrium. In normal circumstances your name means no more than the band on a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In giving that as may be constructive in the experience of the entity at this time, who is to say as to… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
How does self-improvement apply to each of us? There is no one system or technique which applies equally across the board. There… — Nate Copy Share Image
“When we were in our mother’s womb, we felt secure—protected from heat, cold, and hunger. But the moment we were born and… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Since having a strong core self relies on acceptance of feelings, being out of touch with the emotional side puts a person… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I wonder … Are we all as identical on our way out of the Earth...like the way we all came into… — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
“Who do you imagine you are? Imagine there's a version of you that sees all of it. A version that knows when… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“The ego isn't a bad thing. If we didn't develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn't be able… — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
At the same time women are putting on the headscarf, they are also going to work, to education, increasingly vocal in the… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“Anyway, there are two tentative solutions for getting rid of selfishness - both involving a stoic casting - off of the thin… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“What is you, Sam?" I hesitated, trying to think about how I visualized myself. All I came up with was how other… — Andrea Smith Copy Share Image
“As we grow and mature and become self--conscious, we are taught that appearances—-who we are on the outside—-aren’t nearly as important as… — Amy Ellis Nutt Copy Share Image
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
We don't think of ourselves in Cafe Tacvba as representatives. When we go and make new material, we feel that our creations… — Joselo Rangel Copy Share Image
On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection. My heart rate picks up as I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“For ages you have come and gone courting this delusion. For ages you have run from the pain and forfeited the ecstasy.… — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
“The Self is kalpswaroop (becomes what it contemplates). If kalpswaroop remains nirvikalp (free from I-ness and my-ness), then it is a parmatma,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
