“THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“is the foundation of every personal growth and self-improvement path!” — Yamada Takumi Copy Share Image
Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others. — David Soul Copy Share Image
“Learn to accept the inevitability of difference between the self-view & others' image of us. Be willing to take this as an… — Neena Verma Copy Share Image
It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
I worry that if you see a row of self-checkouts, you think, 'That all used to be jobs and real people.' — Emily Berrington Copy Share Image
I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
There's an identity thing that goes on where you spend so much time caring for your child that, after a year or… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
“There is a marvelous ambiguity to the ego: on the one hand it is an ordinary part of the world, one of… — Robert Sokolowski Copy Share Image
If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away,… — Jane Devin Copy Share Image
Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Maybe such questions bothered me so much because they are being asked about me, all the time, within the echo chamber of… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye! — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
“Self-realization or self-awareness is not a destination - it is a relentless experience - it is a psychological process of ceaseless evolution.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
