To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Since the self, in maintaining its isolation and detachment does not commit itself to a creative relationship with the other and is… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“I had a book of Bible stories when I was a kid. There was a picture I'd look at twenty times every… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
You cannot build a cultural identity without the images and sounds of your culture. Most countries in the third world - poor… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
“The belief in a definable, consistent self, an identity that develops through the course of a life-story and that can be conclusively… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Regardless of the Islamophobia, where we have gone wrong in the Democratic Party and the American left is to play wholeheartedly into… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“Jacques once told me that my sense of rootlessness would increase in direct proportion to the number of places in which I… — Daniel Levin Copy Share Image
When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on.… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
“The way individuals live together. The truth of each individual is only the truth of his own narrow perspective. The entirety of… — Jakob Wassermann Copy Share Image
Spirit is the essence of consciousness, the energy of the universe that creates all things. Each one of us is a part… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living': so too with the biography of that self. And… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
“One has to understand [Who am I? and Who is the doer?] and become one [with the Self]. Those who have tried… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We have a thing that we call the Serhant brand strategy system. Once you have your core identity, then you create consistent… — Ryan Serhant Copy Share Image
As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way,… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. He [C.S. Lewis] says elsewhere that that's the very… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I've always believed in self, I've always believed that as long as I believe, nothing else matters. I just put that type… — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Everyone becomes equally conscious of his body as a separate and complete organism, [but] everyone does not become equally conscious of himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the… — Eugene Taylor Copy Share Image
“Ruth once told me when I went to visit her at HMP Highpoint that it is surprising how much of what you… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
![“We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it has altered every phase of the American vision and identity. The television war has meant the end of the dichotomy between civilian and military. The…” quote by Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/herman-melville-162_accessories_we-are-now-in-the-midst-of-our-first-tel_387115.jpg)
![“One has to understand [Who am I? and Who is the doer?] and become one [with the Self]. Those who have tried to 'do' will never attain liberation. The one who 'does' becomes 'the doer' and the One who understands, becomes the form [as the Self]!” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/dada-bhagwan-31_doership_one-has-to-understand-who-am-i-and-who-i_462346.jpg)
![“The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. He [C.S. Lewis] says elsewhere that that's the very definition of humility. Humility does not mean to have a low view of your self. It means to have no view of yourself. Having a low view of yourself is miserable--psychologists…” quote by Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/814/peter-kreeft-820_charlie-brown_the-very-first-step-is-to-try-to-forget_3044226.png)
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