The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries.… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“Nature’s ultimate goal is to foster the growth of the individual from absolute dependence to independence — or, more exactly, to the… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“There is no poststructuralist person - no completely decentered subject for whom all meaning is arbitrary, totally relative, and purely historically contingent,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
“I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being… — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
“Now, even when I make an outfit for myself, I wonder what other people will think. The truth is that I secretly… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races,… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
If there isn't any positive role models that look or act like you then it's your duty as an individual to become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.” — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth... — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
Change yourself, and you change the way the world perceives you. Change your inner self, and you change the way you perceive… — Skye Milo Copy Share Image
The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Real Soul [Self, Atma] sees everyone as without faults (nirdosh). Therefore there is no such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ there. When… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
When I started doing press after college, I never got asked about my racial identity; I was asked more about being a… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“[Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries,… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's… — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image