When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
With a character called Captain , you have to address the concept of who he is because his identity is tied to… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Because specific defenses do not ordinarily react to our own normal cells, it is said that the immune system is able to… — Sylvia S. Mader Copy Share Image
If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
“[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“What happens when we lose the things that anchor us? What if, instead of grasping at something to hold on to, we… — Rachel Friedman Copy Share Image
“It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“They say that life is an accident, driven by sexual desire, that the universe has no moral order, no truth, no God.… — Ved Vyasa Copy Share Image
“And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
My career had zero to do with whether or not my husband also worked. It had everything to do with personal identity,… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists. — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
I think I'm one of those people that kind of thinks everybody's got an identity, and maybe that's the core of their… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having… — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
The two enemies of the independent thinker: Society's disapproval and the individual's own sense of consistency. — Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it,… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Life experiences with oppression and homophobia often become internalized and can have detrimental effects on the development of positive sexual identity for… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt. — Armond White Copy Share Image
“those who lack self-definition, whether they are children, marriage partners, employees, clients, therapists, or supervisors, will always perceive those who are well-defined… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
“The rejection of your identity by your pastor or your parents is not a rejection of you, the person. Only you as… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“Alice’s razor-thin blond hair is what people in Santo Domingo call bueno, but I don’t understand how that kind of hair can… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to… — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
“Human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Most people are struggling to find themselves because they are busy trying to live the life that they can't afford. — Simphiwe Ntuli Copy Share Image
Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
![“[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that…” quote by Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e01/hermann-hesse-130_egoism_h-e-never-ceased-in-his-heroic-and-earne_2106709.jpg)
