Identity Quotes · Page 168

“Your self is your pure consciousness, which flows as it likes. Your personal self is the way you perceive yourself and the…

— The Unthered Soul

“Lovers of transpersonal power seek the empowerment of selves and others—realizing that power and freedom are sisters.”

— Hanzi Freinacht

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

— Anonymous

“being “in Christ” says more about me than my nationality, my ethnicity, my gender, or my status. It is an identity of…

— Bruxy Cavey

“Here is the major life question: Does our experience create our identity ... or does our identity create our experience?”

— Steve Backlund

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.”

— Imani Shola

When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our…

— Anonymous

We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened…

— Marianne Williamson

“On the Promise of the Present The eternal self dwells in eternity, and eternity intersects linear time at only one point: the…

— Marianne Williamson

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that…

— Sharon Maas

One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but…

— Anonymous

The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of…

— Asaram

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if…

— Anthony de Mello

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports…

— James F. Cooper

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we…

— Tara Brach

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

— Mooji

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

— Susan Faludi

“I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance”

— Amy Tan

The facts are men, women, children, gay, lesbian, transgender, old, young, wives, husbands, black, white are all affected... the face of domestic…

— Kenya Moore

Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others).

— Steven Petrow

“The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.”

— Haruki Murakami

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever…

— Marcus Eremita

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is…

— Bede Griffiths

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the…

— Hideo Kojima

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions…

— Henri Nouwen

Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body…

— Peace Pilgrim

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared…

— Patanjali

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting…

— Arno Gruen

When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our…

— Steven Pressfield

Sometimes I just ask me self why? Why do I hang out with the people I do? Why do I let them…

— Cheyenne DeLaCruz

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this…

— Greg Poehler

People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working…

— Miley Cyrus

Never be ashamed from your self , always be proud with ur flaws , cuz somtimes flaws are helpful , like me…

— Lana

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

— Iris Apfel

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One…

— Lukas Foss

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing…

— Henri Nouwen

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my…

— Ayanna Pressley

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

— Beatrice Sparks