“Defeat the demons of self-doubt and self-loathing by being your own hero/heroine of self-compassion.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think there's a large worry in queer communities about imitating straight people, when queerness has its own identity and maybe can… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
Don't be someone you know everyone will love. Be who you are, if you get judged, Good: that way you know you're… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses. — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
I think our generation has a delusional level of self importance. Must I remind you that nobody is checking for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
I think globalization actually maintains and fosters various elements of national and cultural identities. I don't think everything is being homogenized. If… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
“Maslow notes that the self-actualized person has a strong desire for privacy; vehemently resists enculturation, but always has a feshness of appreciation;… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
“Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Everyone was fucked up in their own way; as before, it was a mark of one’s individuality.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Identity politics is not politics at all, since it precisely negates the political as such by re-construing political positions in ethnic terms,… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
“When life beats us down, we often do not feel worthwhile to ourselves nor to anyone else. Often, we try to hide… — David W Earle Copy Share Image
“The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Rogers believed that we have within ourselves enormous potential for self-understanding and for altering our self-concept and for our behaviour. He believed… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“when my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing.” — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition. — Paula White Copy Share Image
“Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings.” — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen Copy Share Image
“Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
“It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
