“Our goal will be to have relationships with both men and women that do not operate at the expense of the self,… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“Your False Self is who you think you are. Your thinking does not make it true. Your False Self is almost entirely… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to… — Debra Ollivier Copy Share Image
The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Stepping out of one’s world or out of one’s habitual self is a transcendental experience. [...] If we seek transcendence, we may… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“I will be” is a confession that “I am not “ The Father's will is always “I AM.” Until you realize that… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so… — Valentin Tomberg Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“„Nerad zkouším věci, co neznám.“ „A není to škoda?“ zeptal se a pobaveně na mě mrkl. „Tím svým strachem z neznámého možná… — Alena Štraubová Copy Share Image
Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. .… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I personally don't like family dramas, but don't mind playing a mother or a homemaker, provided that character has an identity. — Richa Pallod Copy Share Image
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn't flash before your eyes, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image