“...they had succumbed to an impersonal and anonymous mode of consciousness which precluded personal feeling and which was devoid of a secure… — Patrick Gardiner Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
“Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“They say that the personal transformation that gives rise to self-realization – the transcendent function that leads to the highest echelon of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast… — Basil Pennington Copy Share Image
There must be more rigorous enforcement of rules promoting transparency in the international banking and financial systems, especially more stringent KYC rules… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
“The group, whether We or You or Them, is not a new individual or organism or hyperorganism on the social scene; it… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit… — Avery Sawyer Copy Share Image
If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist.… — RZA Copy Share Image
“All the people of the world believe the actions of the mind, speech and body as their own. “Really speaking”, “One’ (the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I crave the kind of representation where my identity is not the center and the most important part about the story that… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
My twenties were great. Who didn't have fun in their twenties? But my attention was more out there, more about the surface… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“The ego (one’s self-perception) is a very shaky structure, easily undermined by unconscious drives and desires. It is possible to repress those… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
“When the ego is finally aligned with the Self, we awaken from its abstract constructions and directly experience the present moment, unmediated… — Laura Patryas Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
“Self is living entity, not immutable like soul, but mutable and ever-changing life, which is body when observed by senses, and which… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“In our zeal to become the landlords of our own being, we cling to each achievement as a kind of verification of… — James Finley Copy Share Image
The construct of the identity of a woman can factor in things such as: age, body, culture, physical appearance, responsibility, emotional and… — Judi Love Copy Share Image
...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
You reach a point where you're trying to survive. You're just trying to put the ball in play. You're not yourself. You're… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
“I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here,… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
…at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“Anxiety!” he said. “I’ve been there, plenty of times! And, you know, it’s particularly hard during the first one, especially, because you’re… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I can say with confidence that my trans/transfeminine identity emerges as the most heavily problematized aspect of my lived experience. My transness… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
“How can another see into me, into my most secret self, without my being able to see in there myself? And without… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The individual who kills who they ‘are’ out of the belief that they are liberating who they are ‘not’ will eventually kill… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Who Am I? that is the question we all ourselves at one point or the other. in the busyness of life, it… — My Copy Share Image
“Living authentically means aligning our outer actions with our inner beliefs and desires. It starts with knowing yourself: your values, your likes… — Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World Copy Share Image
