Quotes about Identity

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Votes: 6

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. Votes: 4

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Votes: 4

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it? Votes: 4

Creating Identity Votes: 3

Identity is invariably false to facts. Votes: 3

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes. Votes: 3

Identity is an assemblage of constellations. Votes: 3

Identity is something that you are constantly earning. Votes: 3

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. Votes: 3

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left. Votes: 3

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity. Votes: 3

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive. Votes: 3

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. Votes: 3

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica) Votes: 3

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it. Votes: 3

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. Votes: 3

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama. Votes: 3

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year. Votes: 3

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it. Votes: 3

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics. Votes: 3

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. Votes: 3

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. Votes: 3

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran Votes: 3

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution. Votes: 3

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. Votes: 3

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents. Votes: 3

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. Votes: 3

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. Votes: 3

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. Votes: 3

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. Votes: 3

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. Votes: 3

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. Votes: 3

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. Votes: 3

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you. Votes: 3

The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. Votes: 3

I'm so excited about 'Identity Thief'. It's such a good comedy, and I'm excited for people to go out and see it! Votes: 3

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. Votes: 3

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe. Votes: 3

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. Votes: 3

Guns are part of the American identity. Votes: 2

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity. Votes: 2

A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves. Votes: 2

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. Votes: 2

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity. Votes: 2

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. Votes: 2

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman. Votes: 2

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. Votes: 2

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves. Votes: 2

Identity theft is like true love... you never think it will happen to you... Votes: 2

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. Votes: 2

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. Votes: 2

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. Votes: 2

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living. Votes: 2

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. Votes: 2

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself. Votes: 2

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity. Votes: 2

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity. Votes: 2

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. Votes: 2

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self. Votes: 2

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. Votes: 2

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. Votes: 2

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. Votes: 2

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity. Votes: 2

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring. Votes: 2

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. Votes: 2

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together Votes: 2

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Votes: 2

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. Votes: 2

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. Votes: 2

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. Votes: 2

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Votes: 2

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice? Votes: 2

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity. Votes: 2

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. Votes: 2

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us. Votes: 2

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. Votes: 2

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. Votes: 2

All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference. Votes: 2

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. Votes: 2

My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another. Votes: 2

Shall I be'her'? Votes: 1

Be as advertised. Votes: 1

Normal is unique! Votes: 1

Angela Wexler, person Votes: 1

We owe ourselves our lives. Votes: 1

Sviluppate la vostra legittima stranezza. Votes: 1

Through others we become ourselves. Votes: 1

Anyone could be anybody. (Eric) Votes: 1

To create myself from nothing. Votes: 1

I am a cultural Frankenstein Votes: 1

I am a cultural Frankinstein Votes: 1

Dreams are manifestations of identities. Votes: 1

What makes you a chaffinch? Votes: 1

We are what we are... Votes: 1

I miss my old life Votes: 1

What we love we are. Votes: 1

What we invent, we become Votes: 1

The more I did i Votes: 1

Mind makes a man of God. Votes: 1

Time is the enemy of identity Votes: 1

No one knows me. Not anymore Votes: 1

Pain makes people who they are. Votes: 1

In all your getting, get understanding. Votes: 1

Time doesn't age you; experience does. Votes: 1

All tastes are expressions of belief. Votes: 1

Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience. Votes: 1

How do you eat your roots? Votes: 1

The Only mattered to him.Iconoclasm. Votes: 1

Everything is music for the born musician. Votes: 1

Your identity doesn't come from your address. Votes: 1

Salt water is and isn't the ocean. Votes: 1

You get to decide what to worship. Votes: 1

Unless I speak, you won't see me. Votes: 1

Typical me--hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction. Votes: 1

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery. Votes: 1

I am a citizen of the world. Votes: 1

Be as thou wast wont to be. Votes: 1

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Votes: 1

Be like the flower, content with its nature. Votes: 1

People change, though, especially after they are dead. Votes: 1

I protect myself by refusing to know myself. Votes: 1

Felt good, though, just being what I was. Votes: 1

So who do I want to be tomorrow? Votes: 1

You are who you are. Deal with it. Votes: 1

Our true self is made manifest in love. Votes: 1

Be not another, if you can be yourself. Votes: 1

How would I know which one I was? Votes: 1

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you. Votes: 1

You are not who you think you are. Votes: 1

I don't own you, you just belong to me. Votes: 1

Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality. Votes: 1

a criminal sketch of Christon a diner napkin-'Poet Prophets Votes: 1

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth. Votes: 1

It's Unfair to be fair,For Life is unfair Votes: 1

Feelings are something you have; not something you are. Votes: 1

Frankly, I believe that identity is what's inside us. Votes: 1

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms. Votes: 1

You are more that the identity your mind creates. Votes: 1

Study the nature around you, but also within you. Votes: 1

Looking for who I am is who I am. Votes: 1

Time alone helps us to remember who we are. Votes: 1

Treat everyone you meet as if they were you. Votes: 1

Who can give a man this, his own name? Votes: 1

I am a complicated person with a simple life. Votes: 1

She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was. Votes: 1

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty. Votes: 1

By day I am nothing, by night I am I. Votes: 1

My best works are for me. Not for the world. Votes: 1

She knew where she stood, when she stood among books. Votes: 1

Our talents don't define us any more than our faults. Votes: 1

What we know matters but who we are matters more. Votes: 1

He was himself, and he knew what he had been. Votes: 1

All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity. Votes: 1

I am not one and simple, but complex and many. Votes: 1

We must not be anything other than what we are. Votes: 1

Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You? Votes: 1

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love. Votes: 1

I won't sleepif that's what it takesto not wake upas myself Votes: 1

We know what we are, but not what we may be. Votes: 1

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up? Votes: 1

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness. Votes: 1

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease? Votes: 1

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be. Votes: 1

All your life has been a journey to find an identity. Votes: 1

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse. Votes: 1

I can be anything you want but definitely not a wannabe. Votes: 1

Don't let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence. Votes: 1

Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you. Votes: 1

When you know who you are, you know what to do. Votes: 1

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid. Votes: 1

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses. Votes: 1

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. Votes: 1

You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you. Votes: 1

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. Votes: 1

A story meant to motivate all and sundry irrespective of their circumstances Votes: 1

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self. Votes: 1

What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are. Votes: 1

You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world. Votes: 1

Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world. Votes: 1

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills. Votes: 1

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. Votes: 1

You can be many things if you are British and still belong. Votes: 1

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain. Votes: 1

She already loved me too much to see me as I was. Votes: 1

You may know me... But you have no idea who I am... Votes: 1

What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are. Votes: 1

... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet. Votes: 1

Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story. Votes: 1

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself. Votes: 1

There is no other you on earth, that's why you're the best Votes: 1

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show. Votes: 1

I am neither I nor the other oneI am something in between Votes: 1

Our identity in the world is like a wave from the Ocean. Votes: 1

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? Votes: 1

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either. Votes: 1

I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls... Votes: 1

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific. Votes: 1

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction. Votes: 1

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. Votes: 1

You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you. Votes: 1

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here. Votes: 1

Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. Votes: 1

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards. Votes: 1

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. Votes: 1

Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people. Votes: 1

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward? Votes: 1

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. Votes: 1

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother. Votes: 1

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Votes: 1

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another. Votes: 1

You are a cosmic traveler; your body is temporary, but its essence is eternal... Votes: 1

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. Votes: 1

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone. Votes: 1

Who are you?""No one of consequence.""I must know.""Get used to disappointment. Votes: 1

You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves. Votes: 1

Who I am is intrinsically linked to where I am and whom I'm with. Votes: 1

Who are you, Miss Snowe?"..."Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise. Votes: 1

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. Votes: 1

Be as thou wast wont to be.See as thou wast wont to see. Votes: 1

I am not who I pretend to be, even when I act like myself. Votes: 1

I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me. Votes: 1

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel Votes: 1

To know Jesus Christ, you must first understand his supernatural identity. He is God. Votes: 1

...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light. Votes: 1

More than anything, I just want to be somebody. Somebody like my own clone. Votes: 1

What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you? Votes: 1

Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I? Votes: 1

Humikab ang dagat na parang leonmasarap sanang tumalon peroBAWAL MAGTAPON NG BASURAsabi ng alon. Votes: 1

Sometimes heartbreak can be quickly healed when the other person's true identity is exposed. Votes: 1

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul. Votes: 1

He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him. Votes: 1

No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence Votes: 1

The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status Votes: 1

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth. Votes: 1

If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case. Votes: 1

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity. Votes: 1

I want her sinful arms wrapped around me,bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame. Votes: 1

Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me? Votes: 1

A man is more of what he seems than whom he is, until you know. Votes: 1

...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses. Votes: 1

Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. Votes: 1

The most important things to be acquired for freedom and democracy, are identity and dignity. Votes: 1

A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are. Votes: 1

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. Votes: 1

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain. Votes: 1

Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities. Votes: 1

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary. Votes: 1

Choice is the mortar that binds together the things that make us who we are. Votes: 1

Love holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are. Votes: 1

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are. Votes: 1

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past. Votes: 1

When you understand who you are, you cause the world to change in your favor. Votes: 1

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. Votes: 1

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars. Votes: 1

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. Votes: 1

Only the one who recognizes his power in Jesus Christ can build a strong team. Votes: 1

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes. Votes: 1

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Votes: 1

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity. Votes: 1

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness. Votes: 1

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity. Votes: 1

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? Votes: 1

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility. Votes: 1

There are varieties of life unknown to you.Their whole identity is: you can't find out. Votes: 1

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy. Votes: 1

I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup. Votes: 1

Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is. Votes: 1

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks. Votes: 1

I get happy and I get sad,just like anybody elsebut they call this a disorder. Votes: 1

the man eventually becomes what he dreams of"By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted`s Tale Votes: 1

I am everything what u see and I can be anything what I want to be. Votes: 1

My identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask. Votes: 1

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language. Votes: 1

...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close... Votes: 1

Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before. Votes: 1

I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me. Votes: 1

It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are. Votes: 1

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all. Votes: 1

No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run. Votes: 1

Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino. Votes: 1

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them. Votes: 1

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away. Votes: 1

All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last. Votes: 1

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. Votes: 1

Until you are able to answer the question of self, you'll still be living under someones shadows Votes: 1

If you can accept the indescribable nature of your true identity, you unveil the mystery of life. Votes: 1

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that. Votes: 1

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them. Votes: 1

Culture is taking whatever background you come from and either running with it or running from it. Votes: 1

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being. Votes: 1

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America? Votes: 1

Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours. Votes: 1

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. Votes: 1

No matter what you do, you are that girl. It's how you become that girl that matters. Votes: 1

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital. Votes: 1

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self. Votes: 1

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans. Votes: 1

when love comes without a clue - it comes to shake all our identity from our root. Votes: 1

variety comes from choice of many in oneand create a new another color as my own identity . Votes: 1

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life? Votes: 1

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. Votes: 1

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are. Votes: 1

Culture is taking the background you come from and either running with it or running from it. Votes: 1

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character. Votes: 1

We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be. Votes: 1

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves. Votes: 1

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down. Votes: 1

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work. Votes: 1

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth. Votes: 1

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. Votes: 1

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are... Votes: 1

Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance. Votes: 1

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life. Votes: 1

You do not need an identity to become yourself; you need an identity to become -like- someone else. Votes: 1

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today. Votes: 1

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. Votes: 1

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. Votes: 1

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. Votes: 1

Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own. Votes: 1

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman. Votes: 1

There's nothing like an orgasm to make a person think--and more often than not, to think too much. Votes: 1

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us. Votes: 1

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others. Votes: 1

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart. Votes: 1

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment. Votes: 1

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe Votes: 1

People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is a definite thing, like a toaster or something. Votes: 1

That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self. Votes: 1

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. Votes: 1

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love? Votes: 1

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described. Votes: 1

Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her. Votes: 1

Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott Votes: 1

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them? Votes: 1

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love. Votes: 1

The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances. Votes: 1

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. Votes: 1

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins Votes: 1

We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ. Votes: 1

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books. Votes: 1

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. Votes: 1

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself. Votes: 1

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be. Votes: 1

Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity. Votes: 1

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms. Votes: 1

He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters. Votes: 1

There's nothing like an orgasm to force a person to think--and more often than not, to think too much. Votes: 1

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life. Votes: 1

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. Votes: 1

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion. Votes: 1

They don't know who I am; what they do know, is that I'm not nothing, and that I'm not noone. Votes: 1

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are. Votes: 1

What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into. Votes: 1

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be. Votes: 1

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else. Votes: 1

Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think. Votes: 1

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them? Votes: 1

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been. Votes: 1

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror. Votes: 1

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Votes: 1

No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life. Votes: 1

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? Votes: 1

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. Votes: 1

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core. Votes: 1

Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos. Votes: 1

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Votes: 1

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. Votes: 1

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go? Votes: 1

Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve? Votes: 1

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up. Votes: 1

I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life. Votes: 1

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came. Votes: 1

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity. Votes: 1

I'm just Phil from Rossendale. And now people are screaming for me 'cause I make YouTube videos - it's just crazy! Votes: 1

Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward. Votes: 1

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.) Votes: 1

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all. Votes: 1

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... Votes: 1

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Votes: 1

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me. Votes: 1

the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception Votes: 1

The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me. Votes: 1

When you are clearly-defined, deliberate with intention and operating at your highest level, your brilliance cannot be hidden, diminished or overshadowed. Votes: 1

The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities. Votes: 1

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature. Votes: 1

Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices. Votes: 1

...as I was sifting through a heap of old and new "identity cards," I noticed that something was missing: my identity. Votes: 1

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl Votes: 1

It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be. Votes: 1

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth Votes: 1

The identity you're craving for is an illusion; your true nature has no identity, you're the universe -you contain all things! Votes: 1

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. Votes: 1

Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose. Votes: 1

I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier. Votes: 1

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit. Votes: 1

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing. Votes: 1

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent. Votes: 1

Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash. Votes: 1

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out. Votes: 1

...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. Votes: 1

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself. Votes: 1

We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. Votes: 1

Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song Votes: 1

Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think? Votes: 1

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house. Votes: 1

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work. Votes: 1

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has. Votes: 1

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance". Votes: 1

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry Votes: 1

To live without purpose is like to wake up in the morning, walk out of your door into the street without destination Votes: 1

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote. Votes: 1

Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red. Votes: 1

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse. Votes: 1

Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it. Votes: 1

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am. Votes: 1

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are. Votes: 1

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. Votes: 1

My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it. Votes: 1

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder. Votes: 1

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges. Votes: 1

Freedom within is embodied in things as well as people. Like coins tossed into a wishing well, they contain our hopes and dreams. Votes: 1

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. Votes: 1

I am One. I value my uniqueness. If there were more like me I would hope they were small and easy to destroy. Votes: 1

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. Votes: 1

Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back. Votes: 1

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road. Votes: 1

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself. Votes: 1

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out. Votes: 1

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Votes: 1

It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become. Votes: 1

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing," Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need... Votes: 1

No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach). Votes: 1

A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice. Votes: 1

The root of identity crises: we seem to know a lot about ourselves, but we can't tell who we are. Realize your self! Votes: 1

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked. Votes: 1

It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself. Votes: 1

Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity. Votes: 1

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about. Votes: 1

I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger. Votes: 1

This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow. Votes: 1

All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I Votes: 1

I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption. Votes: 1

And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a citywhose walls were constantly under siege.... Votes: 1

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others. Votes: 1

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become. Votes: 1

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before. Votes: 1

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody? Votes: 1

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.'-Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, poem by Marieta Maglas Votes: 1

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves Votes: 1

To get people to notice you, you must be unique. If I were invisible, everybody would see me for who I am as a person. Votes: 1

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river. Votes: 1

Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you. Votes: 1

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable. Votes: 1

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. Votes: 1

The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you. Votes: 1

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown. Votes: 1

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful. Votes: 1

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space. Votes: 1

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle. Votes: 1

Logos on designer clothes don't make me feel like I've got a strong personal brand. No clothes make the man. Even wearing no clothes I'm still me. Votes: 1

Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us. Votes: 1

Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core. Votes: 1

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The person I am and the person I wish to be are not the same. But if the gap between both decreases day-by-day, then it is okay. Votes: 1

Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last. Votes: 1

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! Votes: 1

She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies. Votes: 1

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Votes: 1

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder. Votes: 1

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different? Votes: 1

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore. Votes: 1

Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose. Votes: 1

You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are. Votes: 1

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house. Votes: 1

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW. Votes: 1

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that. Votes: 1

When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it. Votes: 1

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not. Votes: 1

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been. Votes: 1

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... Votes: 1

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing. Votes: 1

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were. Votes: 1

I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember. Votes: 1

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me? Votes: 1

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence. Votes: 1

You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me. Votes: 1

So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all. Votes: 1

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants. Votes: 1

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things. Votes: 1

I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born. Votes: 1

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good. Votes: 1

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what,I am a survivor NOT a victim. Votes: 1

There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to. Votes: 1

I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate. Votes: 1

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do. Votes: 1