“Identity claims are either directed toward others or directed at the self, and both kinds have their own psychological functions.” — Sam Gosling Copy Share Image
My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want… — Flip Wilson Copy Share Image
I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I learned that gender identity runs very deep in all of us, very near the center of our sense of self and… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
“Central to Möser's view of the human world was "honor," a notion that was as important to corporatist society as the notion… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person,… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The Familiar Squatter by Stewart Stafford Stranger at a ranting roundabout, Changeling deep in a cranial fog, An infant brooked with abandon,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
“You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate… — Orlan Copy Share Image
“He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical,… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity; their sense of fate… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being… — Pierre Cardin Copy Share Image
I didn't necessarily intend it for myself, but it just happens with Instagram and Twitter; people come up to me and call… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
“... all that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain... a transcendent anonymity regarding… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Trump has created an atmosphere wherein my sons are questioning their place and identity as Arab Americans and Muslims. — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
“If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I… — Alison Lohman Copy Share Image
I think the Afro Latino identity represents a level of diversity and intersectionality that is confusing to the mainstream media. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
