“So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I… — Susan Pogorzelski Copy Share Image
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not. — Lawrence Blume Copy Share Image
When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get lost in constantly having to present whatever face you believe a person wants to see rather than… — Chiodos Copy Share Image
“The idea of the individual is actually an ingenious solution to a difficult social-philosophical problem: Should we focus on society as a… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my… — Slash Copy Share Image
A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister,… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“As a child, a teen, a young adult, I developed a firm belief in my solitude, the not-novel concept that we are… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“When parparinati (the belief that 'I am doing' in what are the results of the non-Self) ceases and one happens to remain… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the aspirations and goals of the modern… — Anibal Acevedo Vila Copy Share Image
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs,… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
LIFE is like an Exam that we have to Pass... It's a Multiple Choice to realize that we always have Options. A… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“People fear having no self or identity so they need extensions of their identity, or roots, in order to lessen the fear,… — VD Copy Share Image
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
“That which the entire world regards as ‘mine’, it is [really] ‘not mine’; this Knowledge itself is the Self, the Soul.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“Total self-sufficiency turns out to be a daydream whose bubble is burst by the sharp edge of the limbic brain. Stability means… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport -… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
“To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Discovering a biblical self-image in Christ increases your dependency upon Him and decreases an unhealthy dependency upon one another. I” — Steve Prokopchak Copy Share Image
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight… — Willie Aames Copy Share Image
Any man who has any sense of his individuality lives by his own love, by his own work, without caring at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life is a Game you play only once you don't get the second chance and if you get you will never come… — Sandeep Kakkar Copy Share Image
When you're having a tough time as a team, you all need to stay together - you can't start becoming individuals. — Adam Lallana Copy Share Image
I decided on 'Kaagaz' as the title because everything, from birth to death, divorce, to agreement, is done on papers. Without valid… — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
We would have a much more honest and respected political system if the Republican party could no longer squeeze out as much… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first… — Luis Marques Copy Share Image
I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness"… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10” — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image