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
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
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
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
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
After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“What we shall desire for individuals is now clear: strong creative impulses, overpowering and absorbing the instinct of possession; reverence for others;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Illusory Self I am composed of body and soul, I seem to have mind, reason, sense, yet I find none of… — Philo of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“Nature’s ultimate goal is to foster the growth of the individual from absolute dependence to independence — or, more exactly, to the… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“There is no poststructuralist person - no completely decentered subject for whom all meaning is arbitrary, totally relative, and purely historically contingent,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries.… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in… — William Lashner 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
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel 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
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
“In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious… — Maureen Dezell Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
I believe that a lot of minority writers stress about whether they get pigeonholed in writing about identity stuff, like you can't… — Thomas Chatterton Williams 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
We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search… — Steven Harrison Copy Share Image
“Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of ‘our’ own… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
“To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I choose to live by choice,not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be useful, not used; to choose self esteem,… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
It is important that Manchester United keeps its identity. Their heritage is to produce and develop players, something that started with Sir… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image
Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?" — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image