{"quotes":[{"text":"[Grief] is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.","author":"Max Porter","tags":["grief","nature","selfhood"],"id":42927,"author_id":"Max+Porter"},{"text":"I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["purpose","reality","religion","selfhood"],"id":72068,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"Everyone knows the experience of encountering other persons only under the aspect of how they intersect with our projects, and of noticing them only insofar as we have to notice them in order to interact with them as we pursue our goals. But from time to time we realize more keenly that the other with whom we are dealing is a person, and then we feel the irreverence and the arrogance of our attitude. We become aware of a certain violence with which we have been treating other persons; we realize that we have to draw back and grant them a space in which to be themselves as persons, and that we have to cease seeing them exclusively in relation to our projects.","author":"John F. Crosby","tags":["awareness","being","community","friendship","person","personhood","relationships","selfhood","space"],"id":148877,"author_id":"John+F.+Crosby"},{"text":"There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.","author":"Neel Burton","tags":["ego","ego-defences","ego-defenses","freud","masks","personality","personhood","philosophy-of-mind","psychoanalysis","psychotherapy","self-deception","selfhood"],"id":155708,"author_id":"Neel+Burton"},{"text":"Finding your 'self-culture' is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12.","author":"Victoria Lorient-Faibish","tags":["anxiety","depression","inpirational","selfhood","transformation"],"id":165918,"author_id":"Victoria+Lorient-Faibish"},{"text":"Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.","author":"Ray A. Davis","tags":["authenticity","bliss","breaking-rules","purpose","selfhood"],"id":168367,"author_id":"Ray+A.+Davis"},{"text":"The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in full view of strangers and even fucked in the shadows if they wanted to. What did it mean to be a man so completely among men, and women too? When solitude was banished, did one become more oneself, or less? Did the crowd enhance one's selfhood or erase it?","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["selfhood","society","solitude"],"id":206166,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.","author":"Benazir Bhutto","tags":["feminism","marriage","names","selfhood","women"],"id":237981,"author_id":"Benazir+Bhutto"},{"text":"Find your 'self-culture' is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12.","author":"Victoria Lorient-Faibish","tags":["anxiety","depression","inpirational","selfhood","transformation"],"id":241532,"author_id":"Victoria+Lorient-Faibish"},{"text":"Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.","author":"Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri","tags":["self","self-esteem","selfhood"],"id":277064,"author_id":"Abu+al-Ala+al-Ma%27arri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}