“I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
“That which is deemed impossible and fosters purpose anyway, concludes in in the greatest success and most profound statement of self expression.” — Diana Sobolewski Copy Share Image
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
“Digital life, and social media at its most complex, is an interweaving of public and private personas, a blending and splintering of… — Kate Fagan Copy Share Image
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a business built around racial grievance. And that business is booming at such a level that white people are like… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
“Persons like you say, ‘I’m an individual, therefore I oppose any power over me.’ That right there does not follow. How about… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear… — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there,… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“A man who sets out to make himself up is taking on the Creator's role, according to one way of seeing things;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing... We must tie our identities… — Lisa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“ I'm here , I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“When self-preservation is not applied with discernment, it becomes the Devil’s tool or we can choose to take a chance on people… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
“Always remember — the one unforgivable sin in any society is to be different. Be different and be damned. And yet —… — MissFit Writes Copy Share Image
A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively. — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are three different you's: The person people think you are, the person you think you are, and the person you really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Because he learned about happiness, he feels lonely for the first time. And because he knows unhappiness, he understands happiness for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless.” — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough… — Mabel Copy Share Image
By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image