The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society,… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
It's the character identification people remember, it's not so much remembering the movie; they just know that I'm a badass. I was… — Fred Williamson Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most:… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“You get identified with anything. People get identified with persons and then they create misery for themselves. They get identified with things,… — Osho Copy Share Image
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
