“The mirror does not lie. It has been taught to speak in the wrong language.” — Nikita Datar Copy Share Image
There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing,… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
“I was a rule-follower. I obeyed all forms of authority. I had never before encountered a situation where the authority was clearly… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
“Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Self analysis is the best way to make oneself conscious towards his commitment & the way to honour it. Self critical analysis… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“She: The Final Becoming There comes a moment, one that’s often overlooked or misinterpreted, where the search for identity stops being a… — L. Rose Copy Share Image
“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Drastic change creates an estrangement from the self, and generates a need for a new birth of a new identity. And it… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really… — Pantha du Prince Copy Share Image
“One of the most remarkable features to be noted as we survey the scale of animal life is that as we go… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to lose sight on the way to your future, while wandering in the darkness of the past. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
“The nature of the self is just like space: empty, infinitely empty, formless.” — Osho Copy Share Image
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be. — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition. — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient. — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together; they are two expressions of one process.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? — William Law Copy Share Image