“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ The New… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Believe in self & accept with confidence what you are. Your belief becomes your thoughts & healthy thoughts make you believe that… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him. — James Pike Copy Share Image
'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
“To belong everywhere and nowhere at once is both a blessing and a burden, but it is also a reminder that identity… — Camellia Yang Copy Share Image
“As individuality develops and blossoms incrementally, and it becomes fully expressed; that is the Absolute state of the Self (parmatma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I'm unable to think of a story as a personal story, I always have to think of a collectiveness, of someone who… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other selves, their imaginative selves, the selves that aren’t on… — Jeannette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get… — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out… — Miguel Copy Share Image
If you think you are enjoying your self by destroying others, your will regret all your deed at the end of the… — Ogugu United Forum Copy Share Image
“For this - the ideal, as it is set - should be not as to what others should do to make the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Do not do anything for yourself. If you do only for others, then you will not have to do anything for your… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. ¦ Do something that adds value to who you are. Do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If ‘Self’ gets engrossed in what is dead, then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Taking on the identity of Christ is a significant concept that helps define who we are as God’s people. Out of many,… — Ross Parsley Copy Share Image
“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ,… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
You are not Your self until you are no longer any body's punk, servant, slave, craven. that is when you felt truly… — Wale Copy Share Image
I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement,… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
“We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect"… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image