I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“It is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.” — Max Porter Copy Share Image
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Self-sabotage is knowingly doing things that can ruin different aspects of your life and hinder you from reaching your highest potential.” — Tanesia Harris Copy Share Image
When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
“Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
“It’s self-expression, like an art to me. In the club, I direct the scenes and control the crowds. I draw them into… — Ruby Rowe Copy Share Image
The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not defined by the languages we speak or the flags we fly, but by the connections we forge through empathy… — Camellia Yang Copy Share Image
Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance… — Timothy Keller 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
People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive. — Chip Espinoza Copy Share Image
“I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really… — Susan Pogorzelski Copy Share Image
Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling,… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
If I'm not being myself in my music, I'm getting up on stage every night and lying to myself; it would be… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
“Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if a person does not have Self-realization, new ones will be charged within.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is… — Joshua Prager Copy Share Image
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ The New… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“The whole world is faultless (nirdosh). If one can understand God, then humans will be seen faultless. The Self (Soul) is of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Connecting with love, Connecting with divine, Connecting with your original identity, May sound different, But they are one and the same.” — Kusuma Radhesh Copy Share Image
What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“The ‘Knowledge’ that does not let you mix [be one] with the non-Self [Anatma], that ‘Knowledge’ is itself the Soul [Atma, the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“By prevailing in ignorance [of the Self], worldly life gets charged. By prevailing in the Knowledge of the Self, worldly life discharges!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
One of the main foundations of our country is supposed to be that we value individuality, and unfortunately, that seems to be… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“My real nature, my real self, wanted that person to believe in me, to see the good, ignore the bad, and make… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Although it can be extremely difficult to grasp, the disappearance of one possible self can free us to imagine a new possible… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image