“According to Viktor Frankl, a person finds identity only to the extent that “he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Is there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Who has not sometimes wondered: suppose I had been born somewhere else, in another country, in another time, what would my life… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
The more I identify with the physical factors of my life, the more I become a prisoner to my destiny or the… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“A person's true identity can often be difficult to discern, even to themselves, causing one to question their character, their calling, their… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
“A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A young homosexual friend recently said, "It's no secret that you, that one, has such-and-such color hair, is yea high, weighs thus… — Merle Miller Copy Share Image
But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually;… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“When you take a moment to peel back the layers of time and space in your current state of perception, you soon… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures?… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
The contortions and games of identity that politicians play on themselves almost everyday is kind of extraordinary. Trump, for instance, speaks like… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
“That is the point of the night sea journey—to be born into yourself. There, you are in the amniotic fluid, in an… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone,… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the self in becoming, the greatest enrichment another person can bring to your life is the gift of… — James Knight - The Philosophical Muser Blog Copy Share Image
“But Sir Alistair’s gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Self-worth defines your inner strength and confidence, and the sense of one's own value or worth as a person. Self-worth is about… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have.… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To seek the self, one must first have a clear idea of what one is looking for. Thus, some meditation manuals advise… — Donald S. Lopez Jr Copy Share Image
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
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