The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“The self is who we truly are, but the persona or mask (the word comes from the Latin for an actor’s mask)… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“One aim of my field is to relativize the images possessed by individuals, discover in these images the factors universal to all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our… — David Kim Copy Share Image
The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
“The self may be royal, but it hungers like a pauper. [...] And it is a king imperilled, a sovereign forever at… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Great people do not need to concoct an identity for themselves; they merely try to discover, uncover, and enjoy the identity they… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wanted to make 'Lean on Pete' was that it wasn't about identity. For me, it's about something… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a… — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
“For example, only some members of a hunting society have the experience of losing their weapons and being forced to fight a… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be… — Robert H. Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton Copy Share Image
I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He cements his existence in an echo of time, but the journey demands him to change. He cannot see; his identity is… — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“Boy or girl? I had never thought about that. The men who work at the palace, they use words to govern the… — Da Xia Copy Share Image
“The subconscious mind is actively maneuvering in the background to select the activities that will move you closest to the reality that… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness.… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Me: I'm feeling quite good today Body: How? You're fat Self Harm: How? I'm on your arm as proof your not Mirror:… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Bondage of worldly life cannot tie us down; such is the knowledge of Vitrag (Enlightened One). Our ‘Self’ is such that it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“These outward identities we build for ourselves are not all that we are. A person is made of so many layers. Skin… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's… — India Arie Copy Share Image
![“The self may be royal, but it hungers like a pauper. [...] And it is a king imperilled, a sovereign forever at the mercy of many insurgents, of fear, for example, and anxiety, of isolation and bewilderment, of a strange unspeakable pride and a wild, silent shame. The self is beset by secrets…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/salman-rushdie-153_identity_the-self-may-be-royal-but-it-hungers-lik_2134390.jpg)
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