“To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing,… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody.… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy.… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“It's a parallel world. It's a gothic forest. It's a bluish valley. It's a deep gorge. It's a déjà vu. It's a… — Joyce Akesson Copy Share Image
Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“You build desires, and as a result, rather than just being who and what you are, you create one, ten, hundreds of… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“If the realization of the absolute Self (Parmatma) happens, then there is Samkit (right belief of 'I am pure Soul'). If One… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
“I had long since lost any illusion of being loved for who I was and now accepted, with clean conscience, flowers, flattery,… — Mata Hari Copy Share Image
“[T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of… — Johann Fichte Copy Share Image
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution—another reason for filling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!” — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
God loves you for who you are. He created you as an original, as a unique you. He made you the way… — Josephine Copy Share Image
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
![“[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.” quote by William H. Gass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/william-h-gass-4166_arise_as-authorities-over-us-are-removed-as-we_3102542.png)
![“[T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.” quote by Johann Fichte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3d/johann-fichte-78845_identity_t-he-human-being-and-so-all-finite-being_1973453.jpg)
