Identity Quotes · Page 71

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

— Michael Caine

“every daisy in every field has an identity just as strong as mine.”

— Mara Altman

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

— Andrew Solomon

The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.

— Huston Smith

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

— Gregory Benford

If you have self respect, then I've got respect for you.

— Anonymous

“Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.”

— Doug Cooper

“The fog did not hide London. It revealed what the city had been trying to bury. — WOLF SUIT by Valon G”

— Valon G

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious,…

— Sydney J. Harris

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had…

— David Sedaris

“I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

— Karen Salmansohn

Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained…

— Frederick Lenz

“The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble”

— Toni Sorenson

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

— Timothy Keller

Slang has always moved this way. From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they're tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms…

— Susie Dent

The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to…

— African Spir

“[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments…

— Anita Brookner

“We are all Masters. Every thought, word, and action creates our individual reality from one moment to the next. Each individual’s creation,…

— Gary Hopkins

“Now I could be seen completely. Being seen made me their king. It gave me my authority, and all the people watching…

— Yukio Mishima

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them…

— John Berger

“We parents are in the process of losing parts of ourselves, of waking up each morning to find ourselves changed by our…

— Daniel Gottlieb

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want…

— Seymour Sarason

The great problem of American life [is] the riddle ofauthority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberaland individualistic social order,…

— Anonymous

“self-deprecatory, to make light of their own situation by”

— Tom Shroder

Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.

— Anonymous

I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it

— Taylor Swift

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

— Tituss Burgess

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

— Fiona Apple

“...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.”

— Lauren Slater

The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

— Bo Lozoff

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

The Self is you. It is everything. It is God. That is who you really are.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I may lose many things in my life, but if I lose my dignity, my honor, then I am lost.

— Anonymous

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I love clothes, I love fashion, and I love how much it can give a person an identity.

— Laufey

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

— Tyra Banks

“I am my own self. I will not be controlled by anyone else.”

— Kyousuke Motomi

“is the foundation of every personal growth and self-improvement path!”

— Yamada Takumi

“‎I don't suffer from dissociative identity disorder but my other personalities do.”

— Jaime Johnesee