“I am five, I will never understand why we are stranded in our selves but in this moment I know my own… — Sharon Doubiago Copy Share Image
Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The net effect of opening the “gate of change” to the first three habits—the habits of Private Victory—will be significantly increased self-confidence.… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“We don’t need an invitation to be real. The truth is: we don’t need permission to own the power of what makes… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness -… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him,… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
It was always said you couldn't have two sisters less alike. In a way [princess] Elizabeth was always internalizing everything and [princess]… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“Albert Bandura, a Stanford psychologist who has done much of the research on self-efficacy, sums it up well: “People’s beliefs about their… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Or no—let us say you are not quite such a person. You are ambitious, yes, and in the name of success you… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
You help people that self harm you tell people that they're beautiful but you can't do that to yourself You can't help… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead,… — Paulina Ochoa Espejo Copy Share Image
When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
Identity for Jews like us was shaped by cultural practices and family traditions rather than allegiances of place or language or class,… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering… — David Leonhardt Copy Share Image
“Should you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless, hair-trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me,… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don't think we were thinking about that at all when… — Bob Kahn Copy Share Image
When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“We interact with one another as individuals responding to a complex haze of factors: professional responsibilities, personal likes and dislikes, ambition, jealousy,… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
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