“To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“I think there are certain unimpeded passages, that this is registering in my brain somewhere where the drugs and the bugs don’t… — Thomas Moran Copy Share Image
“At dawn, I sail far from every shore to drain my cup in the sea, barring a bead I keep, tucked close… — Saif Sidari Copy Share Image
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There’s no greater perjury than self-deception. Lying to ourselves puts to death our definitive truth. Confronting the lies we’ve told ourselves, no… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Distinct identities are strung together on the thread of memory, all of them provisional and perishable. No less fascinating than the birth,… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two year military service, I was brought… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“In addition to the kind of critical reflection on one's previous assumptive or tacit system of values we saw Jack undertake, there… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I was in the seventh grade when I first began to identify as trans and express my gender identity as a girl.… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“The Shadow Self is a personal aspect to each of us. It acts as a trixter-psychopomp, who if we listen carefully, can… — Bishop Harber Copy Share Image
To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
“Andy Scamp's simple list of the ways people feel valuable. 1. Just believing it. Sometimes this is religious, sometimes it is not.… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“If you can afford to live in this worldly life, then there is nothing you need to understand further, and if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If I want to know my light side, my best self, all I have to do is look in the outer world… — Janet, Bray Attwood Copy Share Image
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“The people walking by seem so unreal, so removed from the world that any resemblance between them and me seems strictly genealogical.… — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
“Our sincere and innermost anxiety is not that we are insufficient. Our sincere and innermost fear is that we are prevailing and… — Archibald Gumiro Copy Share Image
You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
You are the luminous mystery in which the entire universe with its forms and phenomena arises and subsides. When this realization dawns… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“In order to win the femininity game, women and girls must abandon the valued "masculine" characteristics of self-efficacy and self-determination. However, this… — Lauraine Leblanc Copy Share Image
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Many women are great at having a separate life that runs alongside motherhood because they've smartly worked out that they need to… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image