A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
The more I identify with the physical factors of my life, the more I become a prisoner to my destiny or the… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
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I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
“Who has not sometimes wondered: suppose I had been born somewhere else, in another country, in another time, what would my life… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
“To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“To this day, I wake up at times, look in the mirror, and just stare, obsessed with the idea that the person… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
Is there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“According to Viktor Frankl, a person finds identity only to the extent that “he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Alas, the social science shows something different and more nuanced. We human beings talk to ourselves all the time—so much, in fact,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
The state mankind are in today, is the direct inheritance of the fruits from the 'Tree of Knowledge' of Good and Evil;… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are all these languages that keep people in place that conform us to a set of terms. It's why I think… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
We could not have launched Causes without Facebook Platform, providing real identity and real friends. Facebook Platform was created so that experiences… — Joe Green Copy Share Image
Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“at. Being honest with yourself, like mindfulness, is a foundation for Self-Actualisation. SA people are honest, even brutally honest with themselves at… — David Tuffley Copy Share Image
Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Am trying too understand my existence my wellbeing, it's around the same circle every day MONEY, the ironic thing is MONEY has… — Ismail Jogee Copy Share Image
I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other:… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“This incarnation of the Son of God, this taking upon himself the very nature of man, this uniting himself through the body… — A.A. Hodge Copy Share Image
“The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
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