“The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live!” — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of… — Charles Darwin 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
“Or are "being" and "having" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Remember: it's not about how self confident you are. It's about how self confident you seem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“the horror of social media – that it gives us the impression we are in control of our virtual identities,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no? — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“What is the self? A man goes to the window to see the people passing by; if I pass by, can I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious.… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“Know your self package to the core. Never lose the strength of assets, your values, what identifies and separates you, what makes… — Eveth Colley Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world. — Pete Wilson Copy Share Image
If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Was going to make facebook page but couldn't think of a self-description that wouldn't sound pathetic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
