“No-one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she had become my definition. Her gaze softening my centre so… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Cant stand self centered people. Quit bitching just because you didnt get your way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm going to play as long as I can, but my identity is not in this game. — Anthony Rendon Copy Share Image
“Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone, let him not lower himself; for the Self alone is the friend… — Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“...some adolescent survivors describe feeling special, powerful, and sometimes entitled. This is especially true of those for whom excessive attention was part… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve. — Hannah Hoch Copy Share Image
“Charles says that he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am his Jane; Sardar says… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“specifically and the perennial philosophy generally. Before we do the conscious work of self-development, we are the seeds of what we may… — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it.… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are,… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
I grew up as a step-kid, always a little outside, always trying hard to follow and fit in. But over time, I've… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. — Ronnie Spector Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The path you walk is unique and needed. There is no other like yours. On your path you experience love, joy and… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who… — Marlene Steinberg 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
Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken'… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“Maybe you, too, possess something that would delight another individual. I promise: you will be the one who is most blessed.” — Guideposts Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room. — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.” — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
“Developing our “true” self requires us to know, accept, and integrate all parts of our selves, including our Shadow elements.” — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
“Everyone at some point in life have faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self realisation.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
