Identity Quotes · Page 123

“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. —William James, The Principles of Psychology”

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had…

— Rachel Hunter

“The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality.”

— Gian Kumar

Don't tell me who I am, because unless I write down all of my thoughts and hand it to you, you don't…

— Anonymous

Boxing has helped millions around the world as a trigger for self belief, identity and connecting. It is therapy for rage.

— Nigel Benn

“The self has no inherent, unconditional, absolute existence apart from the network of causes it arises from, in, and as.”

— Rick Hanson

“Who is considered a person [vyakti]? The one who has manifested (expressed) a little in the embodied self [vyakt] can be known…

— Dada Bhagwan

Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the…

— Marine Le Pen

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it…

— Evelyn Underhill

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You [immigrants] have a culture, an identity, a history, something that…

— Mona Sahlin

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a…

— Gail Kelly

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction…

— Oprah Winfrey

“Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows,…

— Trixie Mattel

“As long as attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) exist, one will not experience the Self (self realization will not occur).”

— Dada Bhagwan

I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference…

— Jeff Orlowski

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

— Andy Hargreaves

I Believe That Our Background And Circumstances May Have Influenced Who We Are, But We Are Responsible For Who We Become..

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.”

— Gian Kumar

I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.

— W. Bruce Cameron

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive…

— Marya Mannes

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

— Dennis Prager

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

— Roseanne Barr

With a character called Captain , you have to address the concept of who he is because his identity is tied to…

— Joe Russo

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a…

— Isabel Paterson

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low…

— Georg Buchner

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

— Judith Butler

“Let’s not forget—we already have a highly ranked officer secretly working for us at Patch Barracks, V Corps headquarters.”

— Karl Braungart

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.”

— Idries Shah

“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up”

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story…

— Geoff Ryman

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my…

— Emilia Wickstead

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

— Salman Rushdie

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading…

— Anonymous

Have what you already have. Know what you already know. Be who you already are. That is what Self-Realization is all about.

— David Truman

“Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.”

— Doug Cooper

Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system…

— Valerie Plame