I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
“Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I made the mistake of pouring my entire identity into one single dream and convincing myself that I was not capable of… — Mandy Harvey 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
People are now writing parts for strong women who might be ambiguous in their gender presentation. They might be gay or trans.… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
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Individual interests now trump any consideration of the good of society just as all problems are ultimately laid at the door of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones.… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all. — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
“How much is the absence of ownership of the mind-body-speech complex (pudgal, the relative self), that much is the experience of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If I watch myself on tape, I'm not only viewing with my self-concept in mind, I'm comparing me to my possible selves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Simply put, self-centered and egocentric people don't inspire others. We are inspired by people who place others-- other people, other ideas, other… — Del Suggs Copy Share Image
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing. — Christopher Poole Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“But to say self-interest is all that exists, or that it should be given free rein! My Lord. Believe that and nothing… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
“Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.” — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“Love is not the least bit intimidated by our big, fat, hairy problems. He continues to go about the work of unveiling… — Catherine Toon Copy Share Image
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern.… — Steph McGovern Copy Share Image
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I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
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Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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