“The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge. — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
“A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood… — Evelyn Nakano Glenn Copy Share Image
Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation. — Arthur D. Hlavaty Copy Share Image
“[I]n love, man declares himself unsatisfied in his individuality taken by itself, he postulates the existence of another as a need of… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“With some people it makes a regular battlefield of the human heart—this struggle for self-expression," said Philip. "You are going to do… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
“My true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play . . there is an authentic 'I' within . . . a divine spark within the soul.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Self-compassoin is a skill that anyone can (and should!) learn. Practicing it increases emotional strength and resilience, allowing a person to bounce… — Carmel Sheridan Copy Share Image
“it is precisely in the chaotic and overcrowded metropolis that more and more people need to dress themselves in clothes which signal… — Roberta Sassatelli Copy Share Image
Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
Pay attention to your inner voice.Dont over ride it as it let you know who you are & knowing inner self is… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be… — Fritz Kunkel Copy Share Image
For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great. — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“For so long, I gave in to my self-loathing. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.” — Nihad Sirees Copy Share Image
“I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.” — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
I've learned that even just as an individual, regardless of who I am, and regardless of who anyone is, to really be… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do… — David Michie Copy Share Image
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up” — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools.… — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image