“As we observe the way our minds and bodies react to pleasure and pain, we begin to clearly understand how ultimately impersonal… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have;… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
“Mastery of self is the endless battle in which we must pursue our consciousness straight forward, and head over heels transmute all… — Will Barnes Copy Share Image
“When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are going… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“The difference between most people and myself is that for me the "dividing walls" are transparent. That is my peculiarity. Others find… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Then, you also have that, we all have that sense of wanting to belong. We all have that road-rage, you can relate… — Bostin Christopher Copy Share Image
Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The burden of selfhood,” she sighed. “Life-long anguish. Straining to support an elaborate artifice every waking moment. Trying to maintain our bullshit… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
The science of yoga saved my life, and I've seen it save many other lives, no matter how dark and hopeless it… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When a stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate his category and attributes, his… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“it is precisely in the chaotic and overcrowded metropolis that more and more people need to dress themselves in clothes which signal… — Roberta Sassatelli Copy Share Image
“The Self Is Not Portable The self is not portable. It cannot be packed. It comes sneaking back to any place from… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t falling apart. She was falling into herself.” This line captures the heart of my trilogy: the moment a woman realizes… — Rowan Christoff Copy Share Image
“When you accept Islam, you don’t cease to be the person you were before in your identity and culture,’ he told me.… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
“For, as I have suggested, disruption of the unity of the self is not limited to the cases that come to physicians… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Just as a sycamore thrusts out leaves, so this universe thrusts out humanity. Our individuality is mere illusion and we remain, all… — William Lashner Copy Share Image