Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.

Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population...

Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop...

Cine sunt eu? Nici măcar o umbră…

Even I don’t know myself… In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real...

I miss my old life

It still has its identity. It’s still here intact. We just don’t have the facility opened.

I don’t know who I am. And I don’t think people ever will know who they are. We have to be humble enough to learn to live with this mysterious question. Who am I? So,...

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does stillness...

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

In her dream each of the people assembled around her looked like several others, whom she recognized, only they weren’t gradually transformed from one into the other but each of them seemed to be inside...

I want you to stop being subhuman and become ‘yourself’. ‘Yourself,’ I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor’s opinion, but ‘yourself.’ I know, and you don’t, what you really are deep...

I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.

the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception

The easiest way to gain someone’s trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you’re just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

The StrangerLooking as I’ve looked before, straight down the heartof the street to the riverwalking the rivers of the avenuesfeeling the shudder of the caves beneath the asphaltwatching the lights turn on in the towerswalking...

It’s some twisted, limited, grocery-store mentality, where people have to be dairy products or vegetables or frozen foods for us to be able to understand them and feel safe. Maybe we’ve just become such mega-consumers...

run run run Hermione. You have in your hands a message and a token…run and run and run and run Hermione. You know running and running and running that the messenger will take (lampadephoros) your...

exclusive.” If everybody could buy them, they would lose their psychological value and all you would be left with would be their material value, which likely amounts to a fraction of what you paid.

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

What’s burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It’s a hundred generations removed from anything...

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we...

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.

We are what we are…

How would I know which one I was?

I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who wants to be ethical, evolved, yet not at all an oil pan for...

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body…

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can’t define your identity.

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from...

The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.It was something. Don’t...

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* … We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It’s not heard or seen or thought it’s...

Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence except for the reaction of other people to that fact. So he listens...

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

Our identity encompasses toughness now because she supplies it. She wants the ball, she’s not afraid of any type of defense or any type of circumstance, and she guards the heck out of people.

You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary...

I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

I really like how this team is playing right now. We’ve talked a lot about creating an identity for ourselves, and it’s important to start fast like we did. We have some high expectations this...

METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals — whether ecstatic or abysmal — we should be obliged to change our names, as we are no longer who we once were. Instead...

Group membership can modify individuals’ perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an “imaginary audience”, meaning that they...

The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life- as the only meaningful...

Great Other” of transcendence.

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone…Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the...

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Don’t let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.