Cherish Quote by Charles Horton Cooley

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and…

— Judith M Bardwick

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward…

— Aldous Huxley

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

— James Mark Baldwin

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail…

— Albert Bandura

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one…

— David Antin

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and…

— Antonio Damasio

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

— Carl Jung

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

— Jack Kornfield

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks -…

— Geoff Mulgan