Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless.” — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Because he learned about happiness, he feels lonely for the first time. And because he knows unhappiness, he understands happiness for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
“For a moment, upon waking, he had no idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I wanted to serve my country, I was forced to hide the most basic and human aspect of my life and… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents,… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are three different you's: The person people think you are, the person you think you are, and the person you really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively. — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“When self-preservation is not applied with discernment, it becomes the Devil’s tool or we can choose to take a chance on people… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Always remember — the one unforgivable sin in any society is to be different. Be different and be damned. And yet —… — MissFit Writes Copy Share Image
“ I'm here , I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Digital life, and social media at its most complex, is an interweaving of public and private personas, a blending and splintering of… — Kate Fagan Copy Share Image
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression… — Percy Cerutty Copy Share Image
I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“That which is deemed impossible and fosters purpose anyway, concludes in in the greatest success and most profound statement of self expression.” — Diana Sobolewski Copy Share Image
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