Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from… — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
“For what is the human body, with its branching veins and winding bowels and many-chambered heart, if not a Labyrinth?” — Seamus Sullivan Copy Share Image
My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The idea of "the authentic self," and how everyone is always talking about "being yourself," and how when you're yourself you get… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We do not use writing exclusively to attain perspective upon our self-referential human existence. We dedicate our essayistic existence to witnessing the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Envisioning that, 'I am Atma (the Self) and these are my guna-dharmas (intrinsic properties that have a specific function)'; that is to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Service Over Selfies Sonnet Awake, Arise O Timelords, Oh makers and breakers of destiny! Give this world accountability, And time will give… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is… — Robert E. Terwilliger Copy Share Image
“Because the exposure of self to self lies at the heart of neurotic shame, escape from the self is necessary. The escape… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from… — Edward Swift Copy Share Image
I had a strong identity in mind but then of course I had to trust Didier Dubot's expertise. They've been doing jewelry… — Julia Restoin Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Henceforth, attachment to ‘my house’ and separation from the neighbours became the psychological hallmark of a much more self-centred creature.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I was once lost in the past, but I learnt, I grew up, became strong. Now that I have reach the present… — Simphiwe Ntuli Copy Share Image
“If you want to make your independent identity, that staircase to success is a combination of 'The Confluence of Talent' & 'Knowledge Sharing” — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection. — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable. — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
Life is a challenge to see the world--and self--in a broader way, that opens up vistas of hope for positive change and… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt… — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
