“If memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of community identity.” — Carter Lindberg Copy Share Image
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“I’d lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
“Know your self package to the core. Never lose the strength of assets, your values, what identifies and separates you, what makes… — Eveth Colley Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meaning: Beyond that, your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“In God's plan, our quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find… — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
“The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost… — Andrew Potter Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“The Infinite One cannot be torn apart from itself. It is our personification of good, our belief that it belongs to a… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“life had been building potential, potential that would now go unrealized. I had planned to do so much, and I had come… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Disclosing my real thoughts and feelings is risky. Disclosing what I really think and feel frees up energy and expands possibilities. Most… — Susan Scott Copy Share Image
“The more obsessed with personal identity campus liberals become, the less willing they become to engage in reasoned political debate. Over the… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“One way of approaching the question about what makes a human being the same person over time would be to point out… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
My career had zero to do with whether or not my husband also worked. It had everything to do with personal identity,… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how… — Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Make up your mind to embrace happiness , let your personal identity get all wrapped up in the concept of happiness. Fold… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style.… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
