Identity Quotes · Page 59

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

— Immortal Technique

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

— Daniel Finkelstein

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

— Pearl S. Buck

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

— Alex Grey

“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”

— Philip K. Dick

Never allow a person to change you, or you will lose yourself with your essence of an individual.

— Vikrant Parsai

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

— Richard Flanagan

“Eagerly wanted to prove something is one sign of lack of self-dependence.”

— Toba Beta

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that…

— Eliot Sumner

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to…

— LL Cool J

Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and…

— Rollo May

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

— Nirmala Srivastava

“When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another…

— René Descartes

In our tiny town, my father wasn't a scientist - he was the scientist, and being a scientist wasn't his job: it…

— Hope Jahren

For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is…

— Lena Dunham

“Every human being has both sets of forces within him. One set clings to safety and defensiveness out of fear, tending to…

— Abraham Harold Maslow

“ Jerry-5486: "The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of…

— Philip G. Zimbardo

Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her…

— Josh Gad

To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced,…

— Radmilla Cody

She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“If you can afford to live in this worldly life, then there is nothing you need to understand further, and if you…

— Dada Bhagwan

The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding.…

— Robert Thurman

“If I want to know my light side, my best self, all I have to do is look in the outer world…

— Janet, Bray Attwood

“Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.”

— Doug Cooper

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

— Gloria Steinem

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

— Harriet Walter

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

— Halle Berry

“(Although the early Internet thrived on anonymity, platforms thrive on identity.)”

— David L Rogers

You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.

— Frederick Lenz

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

— Dorothy West

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

— Anais Nin

That power of the individual person - just the girl - is infinite.

— Emily Weiss

I wanted to make something that transcends borders and gets beyond this feeling of national identity.

— Lee Isaac Chung

A Human Stucture Is A Manuscript Of God's Love, Yet Man Is The One Who Ruins The Love.

— NizamShahbaaz

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

— Anonymous

One must never give up and always believe in one's self.

— Gonzalo Higuain

“Self expression is a vital part of understanding life, and enjoying it to the full.”

— Oliver Bowden

Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification.

— Matthew Carter