Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.' — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The gaze of others is quite without indulgence for our defects and that of Mantegna is pitiless. I am grateful to him.… — Marie Ferranti Copy Share Image
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's all signals, but there's no substance. We're signaling that we want to help the minority community, but we're not actually helping… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing 'the most,' meaning that to don a dress,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unless you know the individual, it's very difficult to advise that individual as to what he needs to do. — MS Dhoni Copy Share Image
“Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
“That which is deemed impossible and fosters purpose anyway, concludes in in the greatest success and most profound statement of self expression.” — Diana Sobolewski Copy Share Image
“To truly change, a person must first start with their inner self. They must learn to forgive themselves of their own inadequacies… — Rachel McClellan Copy Share Image
People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We… — Wendy E. Slater Copy Share Image
Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“means. Kabbalah teaches that we are in this world to transform desire to receive for the self alone into desire to receive… — Michael Berg Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not defined by the languages we speak or the flags we fly, but by the connections we forge through empathy… — Camellia Yang Copy Share Image
My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life. — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den… — Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I believe one must be such a big egoist that it is possible to avoid the big tendencies that cut of your… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
