Identity Quotes · Page 121

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

— Eric Hoffer

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

— Tracy Morgan

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

— William Stanley Jevons

Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.

— Erich Fromm

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

— Rajneesh

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

— Amber Hollibaugh

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

— Christopher Moore

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

— Robin Sharma

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no…

— Eckhart Tolle

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion,…

— Ron Lewis

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting…

— Pearl S. Buck

“It’s as if the quest for constant, seamless self-expression has become so deeply embedded that, according to social scientists like Robert Putnam,…

— Anonymous

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

— Anonymous

I do not want any Jewish New Yorker to think that their safety, their belonging, their identity as a New Yorker, is…

— Zohran Mamdani

We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel…

— Frederick William Robertson

When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone's true spiritual identity.…

— Radhanath Swami

“I have lost years that I will never get back. Only now am I just beginning to live, on the verge of…

— Malika Oufkir

Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Family was about cultivating the best psychosocial and spiritual aspects of the individual. When I say individuals, I mean the children, the…

— Patricia Dixon

All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this…

— David Papineau

“She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound…

— Terry Pratchett

“The voices of self-reliance are many and deceptive. In some way, they greet you every day. Their deceptive whispers started in the…

— Paul David Tripp

“I recently heard a talk about identity in which the speaker said it's almost as though we are born into a world…

— Debra Fileta

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

— Margaret Rutherford

“Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one.”

— oscar wilde

“My spirit is joyful, and I love my higher self. I am my higher self.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

— Matthew Rhys

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative,”

— Ann Leckie

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

— Guillermo del Toro

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

— James A. Baldwin

“There's nothing like an orgasm to force a person to think--and more often than not, to think too much.”

— Doug Cooper

My body became aligned with my identity, and it was profound.

— Vivienne Ming

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

— Paul Ricoeur

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

— Willa Gibbs

Hate self centered people. The sun does not rise and set on your ass!

— Anonymous

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

The more self aware we become, the less judgmental we will be.

— Romany Malco