Able Quote by Geoff Mulgan

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the…

— Erving Goffman

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

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

“Our personal identities are socially situated. We are where we live, eat, work, and make love. [...] Our sense of identity is in large…

— Philip G. Zimbardo

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

— Joyce Johnson

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

— Maxwell Maltz

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

— Meister Eckhart

“As we have likely recognized by now, no two snowflakes, trees, or animals are alike. No two people are the same, either. Everything has…

— Benjamin Hoff

The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.

— Charlotte Cotton

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

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

— Stephen King

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