We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
“I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you look into the mirror, do you know the person looking back at you? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self. — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I write what I call precinct drama, and I tend to write things set in the workplace. Having an institution which gives… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes,… — Dale E Turner Copy Share Image
And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years,… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
One need to discover qualities of self because if you won't realize them, you won't use them and if you won't use… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“The ability of each individual to ignite a thought and usher into reality that which was previously invisible into something visible is… — Oliver Harper Copy Share Image
“We are all inexorably wound together as individuals, as families, as communities, and as a society. We must take care to value,… — Deborah J. Doucette Copy Share Image
“In love with myself, that is what people say I am. It doesn’t surprise me, for how could they notice that I… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.” — Yurii Ivchenko Copy Share Image
I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem. — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn! — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.” Patricia Briggs.” — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas Copy Share Image
The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed. — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you. — William Rose Benet Copy Share Image
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
Self centered people always end up with the one they love the most…themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image