To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“So the city emerges as man’s ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“There is a saying that 'the psychotic drowns in the waters that the mystic swims in.' The health and structural integrity of… — Jason Kirkey Copy Share Image
We are most blessed when we see ourselves as we are seen by [the Savior] and know ourselves as we are known… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
“When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community--the all-important web of… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
“Ordinary life rewards a practical, unintrospective outlook. There's too little time and too much fear for anything else. We let ourselves be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
“globalism (for better or worse) transforms personal and ethnic identities, creating hyphenated and cosmopolitan identities—in which people consider themselves first and foremost… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“There is no way you can share your inner self because you are an object of contempt to yourself. When you are… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“I don’t belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don’t belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it creates… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalised identities - 'This is how you are with your mum, and this… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My singing - it's who I am, it's all of me and it's my soul. The self expression of using your vocal… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If the boundaries of the self are defined by what we feel, then those who cannot feel even for themselves shrink within… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Courage, Lucy Snowe! With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type: begin with a type, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The single-hearted unity is the lifeblood of Juche Korea and the dynamic force for a leap forward, and we must invariably follow… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
“Surrender — the letting go of mental-emotional resistance to what is — also becomes a portal into the Unmanifested. The reason for… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do… — David Michie Copy Share Image
“She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will… — Jennifer Saint Copy Share Image
Holiness, Faith and Religion can never be institutionalized because they are the individual property of every man, they are a part of… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to… — Will Davis Copy Share Image