The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort. — Hua Ching Ni Copy Share Image
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in androgyny and a lot of my work explores gender identity. — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
“A man in a kilt carries his heritage on his hips and courage in his heart.” — Haider Ali Bajwa Copy Share Image
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination.… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“One's true work is never merely 'my work,' but humanity's work. It's not really self-expression, unless by 'self' we mean it with… — Laurence G. Boldt Copy Share Image
In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository… — George Wald Copy Share Image
All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of the non-Self (paudgalik-gnan) is called agnan (ignorance). Knowledge of the Self is called atma-gnan (realization of the soul). To attain… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
