“It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father, it is to identify you, It is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us.… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Confusion is like a delusion, it's like dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true belief… — Mohsin Ali Shaukat Copy Share Image
As women, our identity becomes subsumed by the fact that we are wives, daughters and mothers, and that becomes our all-encompassing identity.… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“With a particular person in mind, or in anticipation of interacting with them, self-conception adjusts to create a shared reality. This means… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
I think something for us that we're always interested in is how people interpret the music or the band for themselves, and… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
“I think that the individual cannot exist in a vacuum. Cannot exist in isolation. He is the member of a tribe, a… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be.… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“From this premise, the usual conclusions follow: humankind is now separated from the true and the real; its destiny is to arrive… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“In modern life, people think that their body belongs to them and they can do anything they want to it. When they… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It is bare nonsense to say that I go to school, not to be educated as a member of society, but simply… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and… — Ronnie Spector Copy Share Image
“In order to learn how unreservedly to love other flawed people we must first learn to accept the tattered flag of the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When it comes to working on identities, a lot of the time I find myself working with a company that has been… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“It, the self, is in fact the only alien in the entire Cosmos. The modern objective consciousness will go to any length… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“What meaning our lives seem to have is the work of a relatively well-constituted emotional system. As consciousness gives us the sense… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“replied that I wasn’t sure it was possible, in marriage, to know what you actually were, or indeed to separate what you… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before,… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The social system of capital separates most people from the conditions of existence. This compels the vast majority to accept the mediations… — Wolfi Landstreicher Individualism and Communism Copy Share Image
I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“You know, you seem like a completely different person, now that you're with this new boyfriend. You used to look like your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“At the same time that “self-made” entered the nation’s lexicon, so did the notion of abject failure. Once reserved to describe a… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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