Identity Quotes · Page 39

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

Self improvement is masturbation...

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The service of self terminates at our own death.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

— Vachel Lindsay

“The perfect killer has no identity.”

— Brent Weeks

The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

— Lewis Mumford

Every American was to become a performing self.

— Susan Cain

“Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished?”

— Donna Goddard

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

— John Owen

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

— Emir Kusturica

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

— Shepard Fairey

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

— H. G. Wells

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

— Charles Baudelaire

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

— Tony Hsieh

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

— Gloria Steinem

“People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter…

— Lisa Firestone

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me…

— Albert Einstein

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had…

— Jane Austen

“Self-realization is the sweetest thing. It shows us how we are fully responsible for ourselves, and that is where we find our…

— Byron Katie

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

— Mary Pipher

Who you are, where you've been and what you've done is all up here, captured and preserved in your memories. If you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

— Glenn Greenwald

I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and…

— Mohsin Hamid

“One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top…

— Walt Whitman

“Stepping out of one’s world or out of one’s habitual self is a transcendental experience. [...] If we seek transcendence, we may…

— Alexander Lowen

I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts…

— Vanessa Kirby

“The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be…

— Christian D. Larson

“Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live…

— John Fowles

“I don’t know who I am. And I don’t think people ever will know who they are. We have to be humble…

— Paulo Coehlo

“always be on your self every one has taken before”

— Walsin

What we do as an individual affects the whole world.

— Sharon Gannon

Our goal is self-transcendence

— Sri Chinmoy

“Thus compassionate behavior builds the sense of self.”

— Steven Stosny

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

— Daphne du Maurier

“An individual is no match for history.”

— Roberto Bolaño

Efficiency obliterates identity

— William Greider

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

— Richey Edwards