......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
“Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity… — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people. — David Autor Copy Share Image
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance,… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Some things are permanent in life, all you can do is leave with it or kill ur self. — Malcolm Ribeiro Copy Share Image
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Selflessness involves giving up your self. You become a martyr. Like the Hindu kamikaze warriors. These Japanese Hindus chose to give up… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's… — David Goggins Copy Share Image
Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I… — Dan Bartlett Copy Share Image
“At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
“Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.” — Benjamin DeHaven Copy Share Image
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.” — Donzella Michele Malone Copy Share Image
Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“Whatever I do directly or indirectly I contribute to the common fortune of man; whatever anyone else does directly or indirectly determines… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
This conflict between self and society is a perpetual battle that continues until one side gives in. And society never does. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
“Where identity is not fixed, performance becomes a floating anchor.” And could I perform! Making the unreal seem real, the sad seem… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Ayad Akhtar's 'Homeland Elegies' pointed the way to new ways to speak about identity, new modes of honesty about identity and class. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Regarding the psychological, your goal must not be "I need to lose X pounds" but "I'm going to regain my identity," whether… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image