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I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states - “fear societies” and “free societies.”… The two societies make up… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Wealthy societies, for reasons largely well-intentioned but now producing unintended consequences, are making it easier for their teens to avoid the rigors… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Some people are averse to competition and allow the words 'co-operation' and 'humanism' to drool from their mouths, apparently meaning thereby a… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
The society wants you to have beautiful personalities; the society wants you to have personalities which are comfortable for the society, convenient… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“You can't see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there in the world, as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A lot of people forget that their individuality is what makes them so special. Growing up, there's a lot of pressure to… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
“All which is regarded as ‘my’, belongs to the non-Self. ‘I’ is the Self and ‘my’ is of the non-Self; it is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I cry myself to sleep. I forget who I am. I self-harm. I disconnect myself From the world. From everything. I'm young.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I" --… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The self does not exist “from its own side,” [...] as an object that can be isolated and defined. The more you… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“I often feel like nobody," Skip says. "I ask myself: Why would you want to talk to me? Why would anyone want… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, Controllers usually see themselves as self-reliant even while they are dependent upon others to maintain their backwards connections and their fragile… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
Why is self-awareness so important? We need it for self growth. Otherwise, its just self-flagellation. Self-awareness gives us an understanding of the… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“I thought Oliver was trying hard before, but now I realize it's quite the opposite-- he doesn't try , he just is… — Lindsey Leavitt Copy Share Image
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“It is precisely the essential feature of egoism that it does not apprehend the full value of the isolated self. The egoist… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
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![“afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest, a main mind [a mental consciousness] comes under its influence, goes…” quote by Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b2e/dalai-lama-xiv-1700_emptiness_afflictions-are-classed-as-peripheral-me_1418999.jpg)
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