“As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I love swimming, but swimming can't be my entire identity, my entire world. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
You don't have to prove yourself to anyone. Just be YOU and the right people will love you for it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Self-love is great, but the greatest of all is the love that stretches beyond the self.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Your self-identity is your worth, not your. material of monetary possession” — Mohamadi Tapsoba Copy Share Image
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate,… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Self is ego and ego resides exclusively in the dreamstate. If you want to break free of the dreamstate, you must break… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
I feel a very important factor to our longevity is that, over the years, we have managed to create our own unique… — James Jebbia Copy Share Image
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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