Identity Quotes · Page 100

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

— Robert Casey

“I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.”

— Catherine Lacey

Everyone changes, but that's okay. You just have to remember who you were.

— Anonymous

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

— Banks

Do not allow yourself to lose sight on the way to your future, while wandering in the darkness of the past.

— Lucas Hunter

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

— Max Frisch

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

— Karen Horney

“The nature of the self is just like space: empty, infinitely empty, formless.”

— Osho

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want…

— Katherine Anne Porter

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance:…

— Anonymous

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

— Doug Cooper

When I started snowboarding, I was looking for success to bring me identity. I still love to win, but at the same…

— Gretchen Bleiler

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my…

— Oscar Wilde

“Individuality should not translate to narcissism. Realizing the strength of individuality is an accomplishment while being narcissistic is a failure.”

— Amitav Chowdhury

A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin…

— Bocafloja

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take…

— Nate Parker

Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got…

— Barack Obama

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is…

— Don DeLillo

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours…

— Caitlyn Jenner

“The subjectivity of privacy can be prolonged and multiplied in a family, it can even become so strong that its weight is…

— Hannah Arendt

“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I had lost confidence and a sense of self. Who am I? Am I a person who cowers in fear at the…

— Susannah Cahalan

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to…

— Daniel Goldstein

I think that identity means different things to different people.

— Julio Torres

“Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

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

— Meister Eckhart

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

— John Fowles

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

— Seth Gordon

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

— Frederick Lenz

“Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together; they are two expressions of one process.”

— Karen Horney

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

— Russell Brand

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

— Joseph Stowell

My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

— Zach Anner

“...over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".”

— John Stuart Mill

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

— Emily Weiss

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

— Doug Berry

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

— William Law

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

— Herbert Read

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

— Gretchen Rubin