“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self. — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“The ideal hero of the age emerges as a titanic individual who, after rejecting and overthrowing a corrupt social order, struggles on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be… — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
“Self-actualization is not a sudden happening or even the permanent result of long effort. The eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist poet-saint Milarupa suggested: "Do… — David Richo Copy Share Image
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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