“At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Who you want to be is already inside of you waiting for you to confront who you are and tag them in… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“Previously, as I went through life, I was in full belief of the concept of "blending" (I was fully convinced that I… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Narrative nonfiction is an act of conception and construction; it is formation of a personal legend from the mist of memory using… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“Although what I see in the mirror often doesn’t fit who I believe myself to be, that person provides me with everything… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“Some eighty years ago, Freud proposed that anxiety was “a riddle whose solution would be bound to throw a flood of light… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“But for all of that life-shaping power, race is a mirage, which doesn’t lessen its force. We are what we see ourselves… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image