The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable.… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Sexual orientation and gender identity are not a choice, and anyone who knows me and my work over the years knows that… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
“People lose their powers (siddhi) by nagging; therefore know ‘as it is’. Know all these relations as being worldly (laukik, of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Let go of your constant strife to sustain and assert the idea of who you are. It is this massive effort of… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
“For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is at least… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Other’s authority, other’s enjoyments, other’s space; people have become the masters of that which does not belong to the Self. If they… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I'm you and you are me. I'm a man and you're a man. When people understand the more they know Self, the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
After the Pussycat Dolls, I was burnt out. So when I left them in 2010, I did take a second to say,… — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
There are certain images attached to an Indian woman - a mother, daughter, homemaker... there are certain parts of it that I… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
Our lives are self created illusions based on experience, growth and expansion. How you react, becomes your translation and view of the… — Danielle Maylyn Copy Share Image
“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
My book, 'The Total Me-Tox,' is about self-care and self-love and how they lead to success and empowerment. My goal is to… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“Individuals who structure their careers around autonomy, mastery, and purpose will have a powerful body of work.” — Pamela Slim Copy Share Image
“You are more than a planet, more than a universe. Don’t wander outside for consciousness. Explore your inner self, dive inside yourself,… — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“Doing something for your self is selfish and unproductive. Doing something to improve yourself is selfless, and extends your existence into the… — Michael Lombardi Copy Share Image
In this post-post-racial, post-Obama era of resurgent populism and Balkanized identity politics, it really does feel as though it matters - and… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What Jazzy Jeff and rappers like him talk about is phony stuff. They're not into street raps, into telling what's really happening… — MC Ren Copy Share Image
“First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.” — Plato Copy Share Image
If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity.… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image