“Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To be your self in the world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Nikkie Mae Copy Share Image
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Take that your accidental self and build it into your ideal self.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual,… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly--to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
The mental state of an individual is determined by the people,enviroment and things he/she associate with. — Bernard Emmanuel Copy Share Image
Each person creates boundaries and walls around the self - this often keeps even happiness at bay. — Govinda Copy Share Image
“Not sure I’m capable of selfless. Spent most of my life on the -ish side of self, rather than the -less.” “No” — Vi Keeland Copy Share Image
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository… — George Wald Copy Share Image
We're all born with the capacity to be our best selves - to be who we really are. Then we hear the… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
“Discovering the true self is not a product of invention and alteration. Rather, it’s a journey of assorted surprises followed by celebrations… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Pride is such a weak emotion rooted in self pity, vanity, and distortion of value, how can you ever value another or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice of the self is the source of all humiliation, as also on the contrary is the foundation of all true exaltation.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“You never were the body and you will never be a body. You are pure awareness, the absolute reality. As you think… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be someone else when you are not and Just be you are self and always be true about you… — Bernadette Elias Copy Share Image
When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
“Love is not the least bit intimidated by our big, fat, hairy problems. He continues to go about the work of unveiling… — Catherine Toon Copy Share Image
“[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.” — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
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