“Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.” ShouldSelfWholeHumorousCanadaHatsRejectsDelicateStoppingBizarreRoyaltyBudSense Of SelfFrailHarbourNational IdentityCanada DayCanada FunnyHappy Canada DayCanada Being Great Author:Will Ferguson
“My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of "public domain" and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.” HeartMadeImportantSelfStepsTakenChildhoodMy HeartDomainSense Of SelfDevelopmentalPublic Domain Author:Genie Francis
“Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.” PeopleKindPersonsSelfHelpingIdentityDevelopingSense Of Self Author:Aloe Blacc
“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 that we patch together from memory.” WayKindSelfTogetherMemoriesFictionNovelFabricConstructsPatchesSense Of Self Author:Dan Chaon
“One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.” SelfProblemDisciplineExtraordinaryDancerSelf DisciplineSense Of Self Author:Siobhan Davies
“The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.” WellsSelfFeelingsBodyActionLife IsPleasureIdentityObjectsSourceEssentialsIllnessPracticalsWell BeingInteractionSiteDoomedDay To DayPrivilegedStrainSense Of SelfSustainingSelf IdentityDay LifeDay To Day LifeImmersionPraxis Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
“People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'” PeopleFeelsDifferentSelfInterestChurchGroupsKitchenNeighborhoodBelongingVolunteerSoupSelf InterestSense Of SelfRecyclingSoup Kitchens Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.” MenFirstsSelfLostMemoriesWalksLevelsRoomsNovelSense Of Self Author:Nicole Krauss