One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I'm so proud to be able to share my story with others who might be going through a similar process with their… — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure:… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“when my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing.” — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs. This is because identity only… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“They say that life is an accident, driven by sexual desire, that the universe has no moral order, no truth, no God.… — Ved Vyasa Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
“What kind of person am I? Am I even actually a person? I can never quite reach any kind of conclusion, sometimes… — Ulli Lust Copy Share Image
The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore. — Prodigy Copy Share Image
“The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
Just be who you are, you don't need to change your self for others to love you... They should learn to love… — Alyssa Copy Share Image
When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Its within our vulnerability that we can be truly open to the people and experiences around us and, ultimately, can expand our… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God … without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self.” — john calvin Copy Share Image
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside… — David Antin Copy Share Image
They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came. — Tania James Copy Share Image
When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that… — Nuno Espirito Santo Copy Share Image
Gender presentation should reflect the person that you are. When you lose control of your gender presentation, you lose an important aspect… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I think that's Glassjaw's identity - the disconnect between what we think we are and what our fans think we're supposed to… — Daryl Palumbo Copy Share Image
“The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up… — Sophie Hawley-Weld Copy Share Image
In order to understand my train of thoughts you'll have to put yo self in my position you can't expect me to… — TI Copy Share Image
“It is in the healing of self-blame and judgement, that the self is liberated from the constraints of binding emotions...And you come… — Wendy E. Slater Copy Share Image
I think that aspiration to be greater than who you are is such a universal feeling, regardless of gender identity. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is so important in identity processing: who you hang out with, what clothes you wear, what shows you see. As a… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're… — Chaz Bundick Copy Share Image
