As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
One has to become absolutely responsible for oneself, and then one can understand the mind. If you go on depending on others,… — Osho Copy Share Image
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Youth returned to him like a miracle. But miracles are never free. They arrive smiling, then begin counting what they are owed.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
“Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is important that the female develops a reality that honors and nurtures her femininity and has an identity and creativity of… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“The essential idea behind personal construct theory is this: All individuals are essentially scientists erecting and testing hypotheses about the world and… — Brian Little Copy Share Image
“Mentally healthy individuals should be in touch with their own identity and their own feelings; they should be oriented toward the future… — George E. Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, 90% of terrorist activity on the Internet takes place using social networking tools, be it independent bulletin boards. The most important… — Evan Kohlmann Copy Share Image
That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Oneness and individuality coexist. There is no question about the importance and uniqueness of each individual life. However, difference is no difference.… — Gyomay M Kubose Copy Share Image
Okaii when someone says they understand me its hard to believe like how can you understand me when I even can't understand… — La Fujo Copy Share Image
“The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Practically speaking, when I mix up my roles at any given stage of life with my ultimate identity, I end up in… — Wendy Alsup Copy Share Image
We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our… — J Balvin Copy Share Image
“The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“My great mistake, the fault for which I cannot forgive myself, is that one day I may cease my obstinate pursuit of… — Leigh K. Cunningham Copy Share Image
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“As love is a delicate dance between holding and letting loose, it is a constant pursuit of sharing and growing together without… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when… — John Irving Copy Share Image
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I play songs that have only the pattern of my self in them and you hum along suporting me. You are the… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting… — Ron Lewis Copy Share Image
“Much of what we call our 'personalities' is actually the mosaic of our choices for self-protection plus our plan to get something… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
I just realized that I was putting my identity in things that don't matter. I think our generation especially, but our nation… — Colton Dixon Copy Share Image
Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin.… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
“If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image