“A person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest contacts with the whole (external) world and is… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife. — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite.… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“that nurtures the self-esteem and self-worth of each, that creates opportunities for each to mature into independence and then gradually into interdependence?… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play,… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
When I got to high school and college, I was more involved in athletics then I was in acting. At that time,… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism;… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Love is not for one's own vanity. It is not the paint that adorns a facade Nor is it to be feigned… — VD Copy Share Image
Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form.… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
“My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all,… — Jessica Mauboy Copy Share Image
To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
“My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
“To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
People forget who they are because they are too busy trying to prove to the rest of the world that they are… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The seeming paradoxes of beauty and truth collide and individuality emerges from the debris. We spend our lifetimes dusting it down.” — Martin Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Syrians have a national identity beyond the sectarian divide. Syria's national identity would be weaker and poorer if it didn't have this… — Burhan Ghalioun Copy Share Image
In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's… — James R. Swartz Copy Share Image