When you see someone who reflects your own identity on the cover of an international bestselling magazine or on screen, you no… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
“I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.” — Truddi Chase Copy Share Image
I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I'm a woman and a lesbian and a feminist and a Jew and so many other things, and those identities are a… — Sally Kohn Copy Share Image
Every humans life work is to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
“We acquire a sense of worth either by realizing our talents, or by keeping busy, or by identifying ourselves with something apart… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm you and you are me. I'm a man and you're a man. When people understand the more they know Self, the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
“I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness - but… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You… — Marcie Leeper Copy Share Image
Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If I compared myself to my kids, they know everything, and they're like small little hackers. I feel also that my identity… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
Chechnya was part of that whole wave of entities of the Soviet Union that had a very separate sense of identity, of… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins” — Nancy S. Mure Copy Share Image
Fashion and politics are almost the same industry, in many regards, because it's about identity, and it's cyclical, and people get really… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Objectivity, in other words, is the absence of the self. Our desire to be right, as ego-driven as it often seems, is… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first—wanting to be the centre—wanting to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success… — James Rozoff 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
“Your story is your identity, and you’d do almost anything to prove that it’s true. Inquiry into self is the only thing… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
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