No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of… — Ruben Fleischer Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I will always be fashion. I try to pull it together. I think that comes from a sense of self. That's how… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Their (men) sense of self is defined through their ability to achieve results. They experience fulfillment primarily through success and accomplishment.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was… — Ernst Pawel Copy Share Image
I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
“For the girls the regular comings and goings restored their superior sense of self, a superiority they had received intact from Moran… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“we have come to depend on the instant rush of energy and delight we feel when we display our cleverness by making… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I feel a responsibility to myself and my parents and the people whose love has gotten me this far - people who… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
No matter what you think of him otherwise, there are no two ways about it - Narayana Murthy is inextricably linked to… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
“I suppose it is possible to be all of these things. To sort of fall out of who you are into another,… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“Once I ask [Daddy] when he worked on Sundays instead of going to Church with us. 'Cookie,' he said, 'you eat on… — Yvonne S. Thornton Copy Share Image
When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maturation in the psychological realm involves the differentiation of the elements of consciousness — thoughts, feelings, impulses, values, opinions, preferences, interests, intentions,… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The more power they have over your emotions, the less likely you’ll trust your own reality and the truth about the abuse… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
“In this climate of profoundly disrupted relationships the child faces a formidable developmental task. She must find a way to form primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“All love is bittersweet. Love is inexplicable; it is part poetry and part masochism. Part of love is the loss of self-control… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Yet why all this resistance? Why this powerful attraction to the darkness? Jesus says, “Everybody who does wrong hates the light and… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Questioning this most dearly held core of the Dutch sense of self not only is felt as a direct attack, it also… — Gloria Wekker Copy Share Image
“This is closer to reality, but not exactly so. In the Earth incarnation we have lost sight of whom and what we… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley Copy Share Image
“She stood straight and still, her arms at her side. Her eyebrows had the graceful arch of a raptor's wings in flight.… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“I don't have anything to give you, except to show you a way to better yourself.” — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image