Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
When I started doing press after college, I never got asked about my racial identity; I was asked more about being a… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“[Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“Real Soul [Self, Atma] sees everyone as without faults (nirdosh). Therefore there is no such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ there. When… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Conscious access is also the gateway to more complex forms of conscious experience. In everyday language, we often conflate our Consciousness with… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you live strictly by communal terms and conditions, your sense of self worth is intimately tied to its systems and processes,… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling… — Jim Bridwell Copy Share Image
“Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now I’m making out a case… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“The root of these fundamentalist tendencies, these dogmatic tendencies, is a fixed identity—a fixed view we have of ourselves as good or… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
Change yourself, and you change the way the world perceives you. Change your inner self, and you change the way you perceive… — Skye Milo Copy Share Image
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth... — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
“The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.” — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If there isn't any positive role models that look or act like you then it's your duty as an individual to become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our actions of the past should not define who we are today. Our actions of today should help to define who we… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
The simplest aspect of self-enquiry is to just hold onto the sense I AM, the sense of Being. Keep the sense of… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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