I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
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I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
That is the magic of travel. You leave your home secure in your own knowledge and identity. But as you travel, the… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence of what was distinctively human. In this sense, freedom and… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
I feel like there are stages in many, many people's childhoods when you don't have one good friend. It can happen a… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
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I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
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Someone who is experiencing gender dysphoria would be someone who feels that his biological sex doesn't match up with the gender that… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
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“A contingent response is when the quality, intensity, and timing of the other's signals clearly reflect the signals that we have sent.… — Daniel Siegel Copy Share Image
Women - whether in politics, media or business - can't have it both ways. We can't demand to be judged irrespective of… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
“Personal happiness is an end game; it is not an immediate necessity. A person whom attains lasting happiness will necessarily endure many… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I suspect that self-deception is similar to its cousins, overconfidence and optimism, and as with these other biases, it has both benefits… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours… — Joan Reardon Copy Share Image
They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and… — CeCe McDonald Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken'… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
“Our attitudes, our perspectives, our ways of relating to others, our methods of responding to the circumstances of the world around us,… — M. Robert Mulholland Jr Copy Share Image
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“To this day, I wake up at times, look in the mirror, and just stare, obsessed with the idea that the person… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
“Alas, the social science shows something different and more nuanced. We human beings talk to ourselves all the time—so much, in fact,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image