As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Mastering the art of aloneness doesn't mean living in isolation or never needing the love, support, and involvement of others. It means… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line.… — luvvie ajayi Copy Share Image
“Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“What is the measure of the fact that one has realized One's own state as the Self (nijswaroop)? It is in accordance… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some masks are worn to hide weakness. Gabriel had worn that kind for years— a lowered gaze, a tired back, a silence… — Valon G Copy Share Image
“I’d lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If you shift your mindset to asking "How can I initiate change that's good for my family, and my community, and my… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
“To become—in Jung’s terms—individuated, to live as a released individual, one has to know how and when to put on and to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
“various identity struggles... have also had a shadow side in the sense that they have encouraged us to think of ourselves more… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The reason the gifted students of the world like Khan Academy is because we don't say, 'Memorize this formula,' but say, 'Let's… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Comparing every black male politician on the scene to Obama is a bit lazy - just because I'm from a similar background… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Then August knew. Thomas didn’t dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn’t know what it was to be afraid. He… — Kris Noel Copy Share Image
“The existent individual, as Kierkegaard defines him, is first of all he who is in an infinite relationship with himself and has… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“We are all One. The beauty in one person is shared by all. The life path of one individual blesses everyone. The… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
You know, the journey of coming out, the journey of identity is ongoing and to stand in your authentic truth for all… — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
“You are given a body as a protective shell to function while on Earth. Your Spirit and soul is your true higher… — Kevin Hunter Copy Share Image
I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
