“Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“To be an original human, you must die to all labels. This death brings the real vitality in life. Now one may… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Sometimes fashion designers will be like, 'This is what's hot right now, and you will be cool if you wear this,' but… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
“One should be so absorbed in prayer that one is no longer aware of one’s own self. There is nothing for such… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Self is. Self is body and bodily perception. Self is thought, memory, belief. Self creates. Self destroys. Self learns, discovers, becomes. Self… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“Self care is any action you purposefully take to improve your physical, emotional or spiritual well being. Too often, we do not… — Eleanor Brownn Copy Share Image
“You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Honestly, I don’t know which is more damaging—being too critical or thinking too highly of yourself. Either way, accepting a distorted identity… — Clay Scroggins Copy Share Image
A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Change happens when we no longer associate with an old identity. We release that old paradigm. We suddenly see ourselves in a… — Connie Chapman Copy Share Image
Some say there is no uniquely Canadian identity, that our multicultural fabric is too varied to establish a common thread. I disagree.… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard,… — William Schutz Copy Share Image
If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
If all of your self worth and esteem is invested in how much you consume, how many likes you get, or other… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
Fox News is really two news networks. It's a center right news network that has good, solid, interesting coverage if you're watching… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“The self is constituted within a variety of arenas and in relation to multiple traditions. Self-hood, on this understanding, is both provisional… — Michael Kenny Copy Share Image
“When she does not find love, she may find poetry. Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
“It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs,… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“Often emphasis on identity and lifestyle is appealing because it creates a false sense that one is engaged in praxis. However, praxis… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Especially for blacks, but also for many Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian-Americans, group identity is now shaped more by a liberal politics… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Just as Amy took the credit for making me my best self, I had to take the blame for bringing the madness… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does… — Joseph E. LeDoux Copy Share Image
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
![“There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black…” quote by Frank Capra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac9/frank-capra-12640_awful_there-are-a-lot-of-people-who-believe-th_937534.jpg)
