What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“Those five characteristics are: 1. Reactivity: the vicious cycle of intense reactions of each member to events and to one another. 2.… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“You are one of one for a reason. It's a gift to be different, a blessing to be unique, and there's an… — Dwaun S. Cox Copy Share Image
Broke up created a crisis...in every circumstance because a family gets blown apart. We all know what that does to a child.… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
“In this world where value is unknown, but the price of anything is marked, where the creation of self has been abandoned… — Glenn Hefley Copy Share Image
In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself.… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life, I have always felt torn between my dual contradictory natures. I'm the obedient daughter and devoted friend, but also… — Elyse Schein Copy Share Image
I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
“She was to my ego what Rasputin was to morality, whittling away at my self-image with menaces and put downs viewed as… — Tyne O'Connell Copy Share Image
“But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“One of the fundamental axioms of masculine self-regard is that the tools and appurtenances of a man's life must be containable within… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I identify as African American. I identify as Black. Black is something I share with other descendants of Africa, African-American is something… — Jamilah Lemieux Copy Share Image
Right now, women's worth is being quantified by how they look and their Instagrams and likes. That's all so self-created, so why… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through… — Athene's Theory of Everything Copy Share Image
“Truly, nothing in the world has occupied my thoughts as much as the Self, this riddle, that I live, that I am… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Respect for individual human personality has with us reached its lowest point," observed one intellectual in 1921, "and it is delightfully ironical… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Self-love is an act of holy disruption. To love yourself in a world that profits directly from your self-loathing is the ultimate… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“Going beyond our ordinary concept of self is what always brings us the greatest sense of joy in life. Going beyond our… — Cynthia Sue Larson Copy Share Image
