If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“Since I am determined to join myself to God, I find that I am also bound to be the enemy of his… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
“Identity confusion... is as if somebody lost their mental road map and has no appreciation of who they are or what is… — Richard A. Chefetz Copy Share Image
Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are,… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
When I was living an almost mechanical lifestyle as an idol, I was constantly wrapped up in thoughts about who I was.… — Park Hyung-sik Copy Share Image
“Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“But in fact there are infinite subtleties to identity-that is to say, there is the way that you are, which is the… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first awareness of the child comes with his ego. He becomes aware of the "I", not of the Self. Really, he… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence,… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
“so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“IN CHRIST I am accepted: • John 1:12 I am God’s child. • John 15:15 I am Christ’s friend. • Romans 5:1… — Neil T. Anderson Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter’s intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who… — Susan Shapiro Barash Copy Share Image
If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Taking chances, making mistakes. Living to learn. Life isn't as easy as I thought it'd be...I'm not a follower nor a leader.… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
I think we all do craft a certain self-image. I guess the degree that our internal self-image matches the image we project,… — George Harrar Copy Share Image
I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to… — Tobi Vail Copy Share Image
I have been villainized because of my identity - I've received nasty blog comments and emails just based on my willingness to… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
“All attributes of the prakrut (relative self) in the world have arisen due to wrong understanding. All this has arisen due to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Am I James Todd Smith now or LL Cool J? Pick a name baby. Pick a name and ride with it. I… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
“Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexism… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Your magician self, that loopy doppelgänger, was always with you, tugging at your sleeve, whispering silently that your real life was a… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces. At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image