“We are captivated by the feminine shadow of the self we might have been; in my case by that counterpart of the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“specifically and the perennial philosophy generally. Before we do the conscious work of self-development, we are the seeds of what we may… — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children,"… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get… — Tim Armstrong Copy Share Image
I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
“Self-cherishing and self-grasping are different aspects of one mind. Self-grasping grasps at an inherently existent ‘I’, and self-cherishing believes that such an… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“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
“At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Don’t let anyone dilute you. Don’t… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“[Self]-distrust manifests blatantly in the judge's reaction to your experiences of expansion. 'Expansion' here refers to situations when you try something new,… — Byron Brown Copy Share Image
“Death is not like going to sleep, it's more like waking up from a dream and realizing the person you were in… — Emmanuel Diogu Copy Share Image
“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“Changing our behavior purely for the sake of appearances may seem to conflict with the need to be authentic and consistent, but… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love and acceptance of self seems to be the hardest task for all humankind. Refusing to accept our “real selves,” we… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“A kilt is more than fabric—it’s a love letter to tradition, stitched with the tenderness of history and worn with the devotion… — Haider Ali Shahid Copy Share Image
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way… — Edward F Edinger Copy Share Image
This is the evolutionary value of play- play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid.… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be part of that tradition of French cinema that wasn't really watched by the people of my age.… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
It's a bad strategy to have an identity-based strategy on the left. De-emphasizing identity all-around would help our politics because we would… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“Every human being is a singular ray of light that illuminates the world from a different perspective, and that adds colour, depth… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are distinguished further by the highly effective way in which they have pooled the individual intelligence of single individuals to produce… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The journey to the realisation of your dreams is difficult; you will have to climb the mountains of despair, brave the storms… — Rassool Jibraeerl Snyman Copy Share Image
“Christian worship, centered on Word and sacrament, reminds me that my core identity is not that of a consumer: I am a… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Egocentrism is the problem, then, not Egos. Egocentric people are agents for themselves only (and perhaps also for their immediate families), without… — Bill Plotkin Copy Share Image
“Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime. I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets… — Mookie Wilson Copy Share Image
The individual exists only in your imagination. It is just an illusion. When the Atma is one without a second, when the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image