“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The swabhaav bhaav (inherent state) of the Self is itself liberation (moksha), and its vishesh bhaav (extra intent of 'I am Chandubhai')… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“The image of identity we must daily fight to impress on the neutral, or hostile, world collapses inward: we feel crushed. Burdened” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from… — Tabu Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be someone else when you are not and Just be you are self and always be true about you… — Bernadette Elias Copy Share Image
When you see white, cisgendered, heterosexual men having conversations about gender identity where they go, 'Oh, those are your pronouns? OK, great.… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
“The human race is an elsewhere race and I am an imposter in a street of imposters. I am nothing and no-one:… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“Many people find it difficult to head straight for their fun; something in them refuses to play. The barrier is not lack… — Victoria Nelson Copy Share Image
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The self has no sign of itself... For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Identity is something everyone struggles with. Everyone wants to fit in and find their place, and it's so hard sometimes. — Jordyn Woods Copy Share Image
Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
“I am One . I value my uniqueness. If there were more like me I would hope they were small and easy… — Ben Hatke Copy Share Image
There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“In a loud world, we begin to lose our sense of self, not because it's missing, but because we can no longer… — Egbearor Favour Copy Share Image
When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
How to use and leverage the presence and power of certain places for accessing the authentic dimension of self in individuals and… — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and… — George Ohsawa Copy Share Image
When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
“This ‘Knowledge’ manifested in 1958! That day I became a ‘Gnani’ (the enlightened one)! The day before that, ‘I’ too was agnani… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“Becoming an Earth Citizen means that you are breaking out of a self-imposed idea of who you are and embracing the broader… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
Well is it me or can it be I'm a little too friendly. So to speak hypothetically say I supply creativity. To… — Lisa Left Eye Copy Share Image
To be your self in the world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Nikkie Mae Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way each individual experiences the world?” — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Identity is not the future of the left. It is not a force hostile to neoliberalism. Identity is Reaganism for lefties.” — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
