It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm wary of being put in boxes. But at the same time, it's important that I embrace my identity as a writer… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Ours is a world full of self-deceit, my friend. But it is at the same time a world full of sincere truth… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim… — John J. Gilligan Copy Share Image
The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released… — Mrinalini Sarabhai Copy Share Image
“In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive minds. We build up our… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“Each person has a crazy ego within. That crazy ego makes the good appear to be bad. The crazy ego even makes… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When we are thrust out into the world just as we are, we first have to identify with that particular throw of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly--to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Some people builds and creates a bullet. Throws it at their self, says it came from ur direction. And makes it out… — Larry J Cowell Copy Share Image
Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that… — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
To me, when you watch a Hitchcock movie and as soon as theBernard Hermannscore comes in, you're aware. You know it's there.… — Ti West Copy Share Image
“Identity negates possibility, denies openness to other life. Identity kills, both metaphorically and very, very literally.” — John Holloway Copy Share Image
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Covet those individuals whom you deem 'real.' It is they who will care for you, lift you up, protect you, and covet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never thought in a million years I'd be involved in a project that celebrated the fullness of my identity of being… — Nico Santos Copy Share Image
All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
It's one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject… — Janis Birkeland Copy Share Image
“Here we would notice that what we would call Japanese aesthetics (in contrast to Western aesthetics) is more concerned with process than… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“I think I’ll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what I need to be.… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Awareness arises out of a decision that we, and only we, can make a very conscious decision to open our selves to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing... Kids would tease me, calling me 'Little Bush.' But... I thought… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling.… — Anne Hamilton Copy Share Image
Your skills of written your first and last identity, You can change how many username. everyone easily identified you — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I come from a very creative family that isn't afraid to express their real self and they're able to wear who they… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
The discovery that we can program our existence and author our own lives has radically altered my life - transforming my identity,… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image