“Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment…” — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind. — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself. — India.Arie Copy Share Image
“People don’t always stab you with knives. Sometimes it’s the slow slicing of passive envy.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“The Lord says, ‘use your mind, speech, body and the soul (the relative self, the worldly self) for others. Then if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.” — Max Porter Copy Share Image
I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human… — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister,… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“As a child, a teen, a young adult, I developed a firm belief in my solitude, the not-novel concept that we are… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
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