What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you… — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is hard to have your own identity when you dad is John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, but I accept and love… — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have been villainized because of my identity - I've received nasty blog comments and emails just based on my willingness to… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Am I James Todd Smith now or LL Cool J? Pick a name baby. Pick a name and ride with it. I… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
“All attributes of the prakrut (relative self) in the world have arisen due to wrong understanding. All this has arisen due to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“While discovering the others, we get to know ourselves, find inner peace, and, so acquire poise and self-reliance to face up to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here.… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through… — Roger Maris Copy Share Image
“The human life is the only one in which one can experience the Soul [One’ own Real Self]. There is no other… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Despite our scientific and philosophical knowledge, it is still difficult to accept that we are alone in the Universe and that our… — Jose M. Musacchio Copy Share Image
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
“The one who lives as his worldly name [as the relative self], he will have worries for sure; the one who lives… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
One thing is common between animals and humans, they both live for self, I want to create a difference between, I want… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Simply put, self-centered and egocentric people don't inspire others. We are inspired by people who place others-- other people, other ideas, other… — Del Suggs Copy Share Image
The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing. — Christopher Poole Copy Share Image
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image