“Truth as a living power that takes possession of the internal being of a human and actually rescues him from false self-assertion… — Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov Copy Share Image
With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual? — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Long before reaching this kind of stability in meditation, however, one can discover that the sense of self—the sense that there is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.… — Samuel Ruiz Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“What is a self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. Picture Satan in a business suit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The cult of individuals is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts unevenly among her children. But… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Never give up on who you are. You may not understand the changes in your life now but you will be glad… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person.… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“It is frightening to step off onto the treacherous footbridge leading to the second half of life. We can’t take everything with… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“The opportunity felt too perfect to refuse. Only later did he realize it had never asked for permission.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
“The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.” — S.R. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Or consider the fraught topic of self-esteem. We tend to assume that having high self-esteem is a good thing, but some psychologists… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name… — Marie NDiaye Copy Share Image
“There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Don't be a self centered person speak up don't know how much difference your thought can make. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
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