“That was with me for years--feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
Nowadays it's a big issue in Europe because you are forced to describe yourself by your culture, and you begin to forget… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The self that is self we imagined we were our whole lives. But we were never that self, not really. We were… — Cecil Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I have no parents I make the heavens and earth my parents I have no home I make awareness my home I… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“When it comes to identity we are all constructs. Who we think we are is the result of our upbringing, memories, skill… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
The self...can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
I hope one day it's not revolutionary just to be yourself, but I think that the work that's being done around identity… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“Just after my mother died, I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that we are all given signs and dreams and put in situations that define who we were and who… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
Anybody who has been following me right from the get-go, even prior to being on 'Drag Race,' has known that my platform… — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“We talk about the disappointments of early adolescence - the betrayals by friends, the discovery that one is not beautiful by cultural… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I… — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The naturalistic hypothesis that it’s the brain that constructs the sense of self, now being explored by neuroscientists and neuro-philosophers worldwide, is… — Thomas W. Clark Copy Share Image
Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I'm a political refugee, and my identity as a political refugee was extraordinarily important to my upbringing. And my parents were very… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
“How embarrassing. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit. Flash. Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle. Christ. Fuck me, I'm so tired of being… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Solitude increased my perception. But here’s the tricky thing: when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
“If we were to see the grandeur of our real selves, I suspect we would also see the necessity of living up… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that,… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
“T-4.II.4. Think of the love of animals for their offspring, and the need they feel to protect them. That is because they… — Foundation for Inner Peace Copy Share Image
“Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed, his selfishness, his separation from his fellow… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“When race and ethnicity become commodified as resources for pleasure, the culture of specific groups, as well as the bodies of individuals,… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
“You never were the body and you will never be a body. You are pure awareness, the absolute reality. As you think… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
“Don't value your self worth by others or external things but by appreciating who you are within. And if you must measure… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones,… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Keeping the bigger picture in mind allows us to reconcile the multitudes we contain, as long as we are also careful to… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
