“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
“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
“With a self-centered attitude, you become distanced from others, then distrust, then feel insecure, then fear, then anxiety, then frustration, then anger,… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In the state of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self), the Atma (Self) is the non-doer (akarta), in the state of ignorance of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Find your identity in the promises of God. Yes, you are not what people think you are, but who God says you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect,… — Sarah Josepha Hale 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
“Sacrifice of the self is the source of all humiliation, as also on the contrary is the foundation of all true exaltation.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn from doctrines and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal,… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
“Society is a machine of machines, a system that runs on precondition, customs, rules and laws that are either expressed openly or… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
“A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If… — Paul Andreas Wunderlich 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
“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
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
“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
“Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships — the experiences of your emerging new self!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership… — M.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
“I have found that amid swirling emotions, my ability to calmly process my thoughts with awareness and emotional intelligence is largely dependent… — Clay Scroggins Copy Share Image
“Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self… — Paul Isaacs Copy Share Image
“You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you… — John Green Copy Share Image
I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Be thankful not only that you are an individual but also that others are different. The world needs all kinds, but it… — Donald Laird Copy Share Image
“Any action carried out in this world is an illusion (bhranti). One becomes free from illusion when he becomes aware of his… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we… — David Loy Copy Share Image
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When you see weakness in a hero, you are doing something to his identity. You take something away from the kids, the… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
“But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be… — Terence Nance Copy Share Image
I think braids over all allow you to play with your identity a little bit and just have some fun and show… — Elaine Welteroth 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
“To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
