We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I don't know that I had context for being trans until I moved to Rochester, New York, to pursue my dream of… — Angelica Ross Copy Share Image
“No questions, no excuses, none of this who-am-I, what-am-I, where-am-I crap, not a grain of self-mistrust or the slightest impulse toward spiritual… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I'm sure there was some bloated-ego thing happening that I wasn't able to recognize, but I didn't feel like it would last… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have… — Mirah Copy Share Image
“It is fine to be who you are. It is a good thing not to be just like everybody else. What makes… — Lizzie Velásquez Copy Share Image
Either melt by devotion the sense of separateness, or burn it by knowledge-for what is it that melts or burns? Only that… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone,… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“That is the point of the night sea journey—to be born into yourself. There, you are in the amniotic fluid, in an… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The contortions and games of identity that politicians play on themselves almost everyday is kind of extraordinary. Trump, for instance, speaks like… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures?… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
“Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“To seek the self, one must first have a clear idea of what one is looking for. Thus, some meditation manuals advise… — Donald S. Lopez Jr Copy Share Image
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have.… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“But Sir Alistair’s gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the self in becoming, the greatest enrichment another person can bring to your life is the gift of… — James Knight - The Philosophical Muser Blog Copy Share Image
Self-worth defines your inner strength and confidence, and the sense of one's own value or worth as a person. Self-worth is about… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“A person's true identity can often be difficult to discern, even to themselves, causing one to question their character, their calling, their… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
“When you take a moment to peel back the layers of time and space in your current state of perception, you soon… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“A young homosexual friend recently said, "It's no secret that you, that one, has such-and-such color hair, is yea high, weighs thus… — Merle Miller Copy Share Image
But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually;… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The core of PR ((public relations) is strongest where our identity and value relationships are built through sharing and caring interactions, not… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image