Identity Quotes · Page 58

“You cannot claim to support individuality if you aren’t willing to trust other human beings.”

— Robert Peate

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

— Carrie Latet

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

— Frederick Lenz

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

— Deepak Chopra

“The self-realized spirit is merely a spirit emancipated from fear, judgement and knowing.”

— Bryant McGill

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

— Robert W. Firestone

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

— Anonymous

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

— Frederick Lenz

“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self,…

— David Mitchell

I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

— Kate Winslet

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place…

— Matthew Desmond

“We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of…

— Ramez Naam

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of…

— Ryan Holiday

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless…

— Mario Cuomo

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable.…

— Julian Baggini

[...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond…

— Henry Makow

Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not…

— Eckhart Tolle

There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self…

— Haruki Murakami

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I…

— Alison Bechdel

“The other part is about my learning 'self-love' journey. It requires me to face 'choices' and to be totally comfortable with them.…

— Jordan M. Alexander

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers…

— Chris Cornell

“It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some…

— Alan W. Watts

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

— Charles Simic

“You can become anything that you want to be but the goal is for you to become your best self.”

— Sunday Adelaja

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

— Kenneth Noland

Judging a person doesn't define who they are...But defines who you are.

— Tanya Bianco

“Our self-worth is not who we know or what we know. Our self-worth is in what we do.”

— Ron Baratono

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

— Hugo Weaving

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

— John Dewey

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

— Neale Donald Walsch

“It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.”

— Rick Hansen

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

— Glenn Beck

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

— Mark Doty

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

— Justin Simien

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

— Maria Montessori

“When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.”

— Bryant McGill

The end of these life's difficulties is when someone starts to realize his real identity.

— Anonymous