“Inexorable self, carried like the superfluous and tiresome piece of luggage which it is impossible to lose; franked with the customs’ stamp… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God's work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Bowlby's conviction that attachment needs continue throughout life and are not outgrown has important implications for psychotherapy. It means that the therapist… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
Acts of antisemitism move us backwards, further from our collective goals, and further from cultivating a community wherein everyone can feel as… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Born in Sub-Sahara Africa, I was born into my black identity because no other identity existed where I lived. However, upon coming… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Finally, it is wrong to say that "nothing" is more basic to the identity of the church than suffering. Nothing is more… — Keith A. Mathison Copy Share Image
“The ‘Self’ (Purush) and ‘Relative-Self’ (Prakruti), are two separate things. Self (Purush) is the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) and ‘Relative-Self’ (prakruti) is ‘pudgal’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Being true to self reflects inner strength . It makes you a person of high esteem & is better than being a… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“Every selfless act, Arjuna, is born from Brahman, the eternal, infinite Godhead. He is present in every act of service. All life… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
“I tried to establish order over the chaos of my imagination, but this essence, the same that presented itself to me still… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“What makes the self? Experiences. Acculturation. What else? I don't know. What's within you. She says, I don't know what was within… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
Anything that's been useful to me as a person has been useful to me as an actor. Anything in the interest of… — Killian Scott Copy Share Image
It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of… — His Holiness the Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist… — Martha Ackelsberg Copy Share Image
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
[...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image