Identity Quotes · Page 131

“It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.”

— Rick Hansen

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

— Mark Doty

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

— Justin Simien

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

— Hugo Weaving

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

— Neale Donald Walsch

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

— John Dewey

“Our self-worth is not who we know or what we know. Our self-worth is in what we do.”

— Ron Baratono

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

— Kenneth Noland

For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were…

— Kevin Bacon

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after…

— May Sarton

CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the…

— Robert Haugen

There is a powerful tension in our relationship to technology. We are excited by egalitarianism and anonymity, but we constantly fight for…

— David Owens

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then…

— Gertrude Stein

“Gabriel had spent fifty-nine years learning how to disappear. Then the wolf suit found him— and taught the world to look again.”

— Valon G

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my…

— Veronica Roth

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current…

— James Arthur Ray

“For, as I have suggested, disruption of the unity of the self is not limited to the cases that come to physicians…

— John Dewey

“When you accept Islam, you don’t cease to be the person you were before in your identity and culture,’ he told me.…

— Kristiane Backer

“Just as a sycamore thrusts out leaves, so this universe thrusts out humanity. Our individuality is mere illusion and we remain, all…

— William Lashner

If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might…

— Bertrand Russell

In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we…

— Robin DiAngelo

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities .…

— Carl Jung

Judging a person doesn't define who they are...But defines who you are.

— Tanya Bianco

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

— Robert W. Firestone

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

— Frederick Lenz

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

— Charles Simic

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

— Anonymous

“You can become anything that you want to be but the goal is for you to become your best self.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

— Bill Johnson

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

— Jonathan Dee

“Feelings are something you have; not something you are.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

— Ron Perlman

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Don't let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story.

— Sushan R Sharma

By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.

— Wilferd Peterson

Remember: it's not about how self confident you are. It's about how self confident you seem.

— Anonymous

I found my identity in Christ. When everything else around me was falling down I found my identity in God.

— Grayson Allen

Just be happy with who you are as an individual! You don't need to be like others to love yourself.

— Anonymous