Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
“In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“World is so beautiful when you look beyond your self-interest. Success and self do not work together. Rise up the ordinary.” — Mayur Ramgir Copy Share Image
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking?… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I… — Dan Bartlett Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“In a pluralistic culture . . . every individual must create a private mythological system. I must discover within myself the Garden… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time.… — Russ Copy Share Image
You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“The qualities of any individual surely rest within the core of their imperfections. How can one be determined from the other without… — Matthew Revert Copy Share Image
“No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“My mother once said, 'If you come across a man with more than one personality, you can be sure he's looking for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a comedian, I started very apolitical. I definitely never talked about current events or matters of identity, or any of these… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
“Parenting isn’t about creating someone in your own image; it’s about giving them the clay to shape themselves as they see fit,… — Mikki Brammer Copy Share Image
“Nothing blinks out, nothing ends. Everything exists, always exists. Life is but a dream, Shannon. Self is the only illusion.” — Tom Sweterlitsch Copy Share Image
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Demoralizing self-talk leads to a self-destructive mindset, making everything in life more difficult. Not only that, how you feel about yourself oozes… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
“I think it is the masculine energy or man’s subtle, not overt, energetic influence that’s responsible for building a solid sensual feminine… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me. — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Self-compassoin is a skill that anyone can (and should!) learn. Practicing it increases emotional strength and resilience, allowing a person to bounce… — Carmel Sheridan Copy Share Image
When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
