Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our eauty so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
We live a life that have us ignoring our true gifts and talents while performing assigned or inherited roles instead, and so… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“The One who attains the awareness that, 'This is not my inherent nature;' He constantly has the awareness of the Self and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“All things arise because of their interdependence, and that is why nothing has a separate, independent identity.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I've not had it easy in the past - there have been developmental record deals fall through, and I had a lot… — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
“I feel so many things growing—my individuality, my confidence; I feel lines of my character growing stronger. I’m really sprouting, springing up,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Funnily enough, “self-criticism” is an idea much in vogue in Marxist countries, but there it is subordinated to ideological considerations and must… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“Memory is identity. I have believed this since – oh, since I can remember. You are what you have done; what you… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen how beautiful you are? well if you never did then you should start looking at yourself from the… — Dumi Copy Share Image
I think unless we have an honest conversation about race and identity in this country, we're never going to get anywhere. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal… — Lacey Mosley Copy Share Image
I want to change how people perceived me when I came over here, change how the people perceive South-East Asians or Middle… — Mustafa Ali Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I felt this during the first few months of my motherhood. You lose who you are - you lose your identity -… — Brie Bella Copy Share Image
“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of… — John Clare Copy Share Image
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be further from the truth. All identities, without exception, have been socially constructed: the Han, the Burman, the American, the… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
This is the first thing the Holy Spirit does in your life. He brings you God's presence, and when He does, you… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their… — Kathleen Dowling Singh Copy Share Image
Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
