“We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Pride that you express to other people is probably ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride. Pride of… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Always try hard not to lose yourself cos the moment you lose yourself, you'll find it very difficult to find yourself. — Freddie Stanley Copy Share Image
Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“For the citizens of the Nordic countries, the most important values in life are individual self-sufficiency and independence in relation to other… — Anu Partanen Copy Share Image
“Whoever sees life other than as a self-destroying illusion is himself still preoccupied with life. Life must not be a novel that… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Death is not like going to sleep, it's more like waking up from a dream and realizing the person you were in… — Emmanuel Diogu Copy Share Image
“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Changing our behavior purely for the sake of appearances may seem to conflict with the need to be authentic and consistent, but… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Being true to self is the biggest accomplishment.You are born original, remain original by virtue of self respect & self belief. Dont… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . .… — Anouk Aimee Copy Share Image
This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
It is hard to really be yourself but when you finally realize your whole self you'll never want to change yourself again. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Pay attention to your inner voice.Dont over ride it as it let you know who you are & knowing inner self is… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If the ownership of this ‘plot (non-Self)’ ceases, one will become the owner of the whole universe. And if one becomes the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A living entity becomes aware of his Spiritual Identity and becomes aware of the Supreme Personality of Godhead only when he comes… — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
“You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
It is a human necessity no matter how bad life gets or dinghy a place can be to find the beauty inside… — Ryan Swain Copy Share Image
It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense of home, of… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way to explore your own identity and… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
“Connection to a larger humanity gives people more freedom to express their individuality without fear of jeopardizing belonging.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where… — Martin Kippenberger Copy Share Image
