“All attributes of the prakrut (relative self) in the world have arisen due to wrong understanding. All this has arisen due to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have been villainized because of my identity - I've received nasty blog comments and emails just based on my willingness to… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
“so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
“The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter’s intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who… — Susan Shapiro Barash Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“IN CHRIST I am accepted: • John 1:12 I am God’s child. • John 15:15 I am Christ’s friend. • Romans 5:1… — Neil T. Anderson Copy Share Image
One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The greatest power you have is your faith. F-A-I-T-H. And the word faith stands for Fantastic Adventures In Trusting Him. God will… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
“But after I had imployed some years in thus studying the Book of the World, and endeavouring to get experience, I took… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“When we separate ourselves from the rest of the world, the world becomes a lonely and difficult place to live in. When… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“Apart from the agglomeration of huge masses in which the individual disappears anyway, one of the chief factors responsible for psychological mass-mindedness… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of… — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
“So what good is to be found in today’s metropolitan areas, amidst all the alienation, the anonymity, and the lack of cohesiveness… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Sex Pistols may come and go, but rebellion remains a key part of… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“As human beings, identity and self image are fused into the way we move and hold ourselves. Because even if we are… — Jane Hardjono Copy Share Image
My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Being half-Jamaican, half-Chinese in a very white area, it created a real identity crisis for me as a kid. But I'd travel… — Griff Copy Share Image
