Identity Quotes · Page 98

“Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.”

— Alain de Botton

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

— Douglas Hofstadter

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

— Scott Kahn

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

— Jean Vanier

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

— Candice Bergen

“Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.”

— Bryant McGill

Sometimes you need to lose and eye to see your self for the first time.

— Anonymous

Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

— Rick Warren

“If you want to make your independent identity, that staircase to success is a combination of 'The Confluence of Talent' & 'Knowledge Sharing”

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what…

— Toyin Odutola

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self…

— James Gleick

I was once lost in the past, but I learnt, I grew up, became strong. Now that I have reach the present…

— Simphiwe Ntuli

“Henceforth, attachment to ‘my house’ and separation from the neighbours became the psychological hallmark of a much more self-centred creature.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

— Alfred Korzybski

I had a strong identity in mind but then of course I had to trust Didier Dubot's expertise. They've been doing jewelry…

— Julia Restoin Roitfeld

“One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from…

— Edward Swift

For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,…

— Laura Nyro

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self…

— Thomas Merton

“One way to think of this dignity is to equate when you are on the path with unraveling a ball of yarn.…

— Lodro Rinzler

“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American…

— James Baldwin

Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the…

— Tony Robbins

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when…

— Plotinus

I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and…

— Wayne Dyer

“Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

— Greg Gutfeld

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

— Juliette Lewis

Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.

— Gautam Gambhir

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why is it important for you to know the real God? Because your identity is found in Him.

— Karen Wheaton

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

— Mark Zuckerberg

We all want to be normal, but it's relative to individuality. My normal is not your normal.

— Dominique Jackson

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

— Jack Kerouac

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

— Kevin Hart

Allow your self to be who you really want to be.I believe in being me.

— Lynette Small

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

— William Shakespeare

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

— R. C. Sproul

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

— Richard Gere

Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.

— Demi Lovato