Identity Quotes · Page 56

People don't change they just reveal their true self

— K-mac-k

The secret is within your self.

— Huineng

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

— Andreja Pejic

“What is the one message that only you can give? It's your story.”

— J.R. Rim

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

— Tilda Swinton

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

— Rudolf Steiner

“To those who can’t be their self because society has a different expectation of normal.”

— Marie James

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Not sure I’m capable of selfless. Spent most of my life on the -ish side of self, rather than the -less.” “No”

— Vi Keeland

I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.

— Joel Madden

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about…

— Gene Luen Yang

Self-respect comes from acting in accordance with your fundamental nature. Let your individuality and uniqueness to shine.

— Kishore Bansal

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning’ (‘Truth, Power, Self’,…

— Gary Gutting

When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction…

— Eckhart Tolle

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely…

— Thomas Nagel

“The search for a lasting identity is a stressful waste of time; it’s disappointing to keep looking for something that doesn’t exist.”

— Josh Korda

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

— Roseanne Barr

I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of…

— Charlize Theron

“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the…

— Boris Pasternak

[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about…

— William Maxwell

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory…

— Harold Rosenberg

Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at…

— Swami Vivekananda

When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or…

— Pope Benedict XVI

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.”

— Ilyas Kassam

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

— Nicole Kidman

“The struggle didn't leave a scar; it left a geography.”

— Brandi Lynn

Music is obviously a huge part of the Marley family identity. But that music is part of a larger idea - love.

— Rohan Marley

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

— Marcel Duchamp

“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

— Harold Brodkey

Some people do not change, they are eventually revealed.

— Anonymous

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

— Dan Quinn

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

— Muhammad Ali

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

— Wilson Mizner

Believing in self is the biggest weapon and fearing someone is the biggest setback.

— 5h45hvut