Identity Quotes · Page 126

“more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid doing it.”[i]”

— Zoe McKey

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

— Amit Ray

Worry about your damn self in this world you cant rely on no fucking body.

— Anonymous

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

— Rex Brandt

Everything begins with accepting yourself. Without self-acceptance, you can't accomplish anything.

— Spido

I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.

— Tyler Winklevoss

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

— Sachin Tendulkar

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

— Sarah McBride

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now…

— Philip James Bailey

“Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.”

— Alaya Dawn Johnson

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

— Helen McCrory

“As long as attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) exist, one will not experience the Self (self realization will not occur).”

— Dada Bhagwan

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

— Brian Tracy

“The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.”

— Debra Moffitt

“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates…

— H.P. Lovecraft

You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was…

— Kathy Acker

I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work,…

— Patrick Fabian

“We may take it that the world is undoubtedly itself [i.e., is indistinct from itself], but, in any attempt to see itself,…

— Anonymous

Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that…

— David Papineau

“There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries…

— John Burnside

Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our…

— Michael Pollan

“The autobiographical self (D’Amasio 2000) incorporates the reflective self and some of the emotional self, and it provides the sense of “I”…

— Rick Hanson

Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual…

— Karen Horney

“Instead of buying into that negative self-talk, state what you intend to invite into your life each day. Be as specific as…

— Lisa Mininni

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Challenges turned the eye inward to empower a renewed self for an enhanced future.”

— Mala Naidoo

“always be a first-rate version of your self instead of a second-rate version of someone else.”

— Judy Garland

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

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

— Fernando Flores

“To will not from self, but with the Eternal, is to live.”

— George MacDonald

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

— Junius

I do not want to waste time in proving my identity to people.

— Atishi

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

— Alex Kapranos

“When the Self is realised, the whole world ceases to exist.”

— Shiva Negi

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

— Angelina Jolie

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

— Vivienne Westwood

“One who is absorbed in the Self for even a moment, can become the absolute Self (Paramatma).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Confidence is built by self inner strength & belief in self.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg