In order to leave a big mark on this world we must live our lives as our selves, and only ourselves. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
“In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious… — Maureen Dezell Copy Share Image
In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“Self-compassoin is a skill that anyone can (and should!) learn. Practicing it increases emotional strength and resilience, allowing a person to bounce… — Carmel Sheridan Copy Share Image
There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
I choose to live by choice,not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be useful, not used; to choose self esteem,… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
“To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Without somebody to watch me, laugh at my jokes, tell me what to do, ask me questions, race me to the river,… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Being half-Jamaican, half-Chinese in a very white area, it created a real identity crisis for me as a kid. But I'd travel… — Griff Copy Share Image
“A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“As human beings, identity and self image are fused into the way we move and hold ourselves. Because even if we are… — Jane Hardjono Copy Share Image
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
