I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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My heritage will always be an element in my work but as I've written, traveled, and lived more, I've found that the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“In times of turbulence in your life always know when it's time to throw up the gates and lock your heart and… — Charles E Hudson Copy Share Image
To parents who find a child's disclosure about sexual or gender identity challenging, I always urge what I'd call "moderated" honesty. If… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
“In her dream each of the people assembled around her looked like several others, whom she recognized, only they weren't gradually transformed… — Vera Linhartová Copy Share Image
“By 19oo, anybody could end up "a 'Nobody,"' plodding down the "many paths leading to the Land of 'Nowhere."' Failure had become… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“If you set out alone and sovereign, unconnected to a family, a religion, a nationality, a tradition, a class, then pretty soon… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“You do not exist. I think I exist. I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[T]here's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as 'pro-life' but aren't in the movement. ...[S]aying you're 'pro-life'… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
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The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they… — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
“The most tragic thing anyone could ever say to us is “Oh – you're a Christian? I had no idea!” It is… — Pastor Steve Bainbridge Copy Share Image
“To look into what will be isn’t unlike self-abuse. To watch yourself march through possibilities, to follow the truth through all those… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Grunge gave me a sense of identity, and I remember really associating with 'Silverchair,' who were these chilled-out Australian teenagers. The fact… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
“The process of simplifying man's environment and rendering it increasingly elemental and crude has a cultural as well as a physical dimension.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“When can one really say that pudgal (non-Self complex of input and output) is the doer? It is after one attains Self-realization. Otherwise, he would go in the wrong… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
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“Your magician self, that loopy doppelgänger, was always with you, tugging at your sleeve, whispering silently that your real life was a… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexism… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I… — Usher Copy Share Image
“Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God.… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces. At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
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![“Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths.” quote by Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/nicholas-murray-47677_huxley_selfhood-is-a-heavy-hardly-translucent-m_3056286.jpg)
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