Identity Quotes · Page 272

[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it,…

— Anonymous

Any fitness expert will tell you that a strong core is the start to a strong and healthy body. The same is…

— Matthew West

Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ...…

— Philip Rieff

“ I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a…

— Milan Kundera

“Alignment begins with a constituency of one. These are the individuals whose substance is real, pure and nonnegotiable. They share their vulnerabilities…

— Kristin S. Kaufman

“And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge. and he answered, saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the…

— Kahlil Gibran

Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day…

— Arianna Huffington

Trying to be anyone else is a waste of the person we are. Lets be our self. Embrace that individual inside us…

— Glen Rambharack

Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question…

— Shelby Steele

“There is only one passion which satisfies man’s need to unite himself with the world, and to acquire at the same time…

— Erich Fromm

When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Contrary to what you may have heard or been taught, your ego isn't a bad thing. It means well. The ego wants…

— Charles Holt

I think when you grow up living next to your grandparents and cousins and you're 300 meters from the family offices and…

— Margherita Missoni

Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding…

— John de Ruiter

I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of the culture, and…

— KRS-One

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how…

— Jack Kornfield

Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools.…

— Brianna Wu

“and I attempted, above all, to get at the truth, not the masquerade that declares itself as genuineness when, habitually, the truth…

— Evan Dara

How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards…

— Wayne LaPierre

I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go…

— Steve-O

Always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one…

— Anonymous

“When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we…

— Steven Kotler

The key is to be true to your community's norms and values. You can't just force yourself on people and try to…

— Chris DeWolfe

“For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not- self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self…

— Aldous Huxley

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here…

— Ani DiFranco

Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life,…

— Dale Jamieson

Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that…

— Amartya Sen

“If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive…

— Erik Pevernagie

Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood…

— Gautama Buddha

I always found it interesting when you went off to college, people would talk about how you go and search for your…

— Justin Lin

'I Met You When I Was 18' is a collection of songs, a story about moving to New York City when I…

— Lauv

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea…

— Buddha

“Handcrafted Humanity Sonnet 12 Here are some words born of narrowness, Activist, woke, religious, atheist, Socialist, communist, capitalist, conservative, Intellectual, intelligent, classy,…

— Abhijit Naskar

In a recent survive of Millennials around the world asking what most defines our identity, the most popular wasn't nationality, ethnicity or…

— Mark Zuckerberg

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us…

— Jimmy Carter

Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed…

— David Ray Griffin

Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

“In Erikson’s words: “A meaningful old age…serves the need for that integrated heritage which gives indispensable perspective on the life cycle. Strength…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The universe was once conceived as the passive stage upon which the dramatic conflict of human wills was enacted and resolved. Today…

— Maya Deren

“Adam means “human.” Eve means “life.” A human needs another for “life” to come alive and become living. Identity can’t grow ferally,…

— Leonard Sweet