Trying to raise my self-image caused me to do everything in excess and defeat my own purpose. — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity. — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
Most of the attacks, most of the online hate that I've received has really been targeted at my Jewish identity. — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get lost in constantly having to present whatever face you believe a person wants to see rather than… — Chiodos Copy Share Image
“I felt my own self-sufficiency, my own Walden Pond, seeping out of me as if I'd sprung a leak. Self soaked into… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I… — Susan Pogorzelski Copy Share Image
Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
“People fear having no self or identity so they need extensions of their identity, or roots, in order to lessen the fear,… — VD Copy Share Image
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“That which the entire world regards as ‘mine’, it is [really] ‘not mine’; this Knowledge itself is the Self, the Soul.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
“There is no way you can share your inner self because you are an object of contempt to yourself. When you are… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I don’t belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don’t belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
“globalism (for better or worse) transforms personal and ethnic identities, creating hyphenated and cosmopolitan identities—in which people consider themselves first and foremost… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
When you get to know your self, you get to know everyone and everything on the planet. — Rakim Copy Share Image
Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
>> Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change his self. — Juba Larbes Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape? — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
As anonymous as the universe is. Our identity is anonymous to concept of being anonymous. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“You need realization of the Self and awareness of the Self in order to go to moksha (ultimate liberation).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“People often reveal their innermost selves in the most innocent of situations.” — Abhishek Ratna Copy Share Image