Identity Quotes · Page 69

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

— Florence L. Barclay

“Having born as a human, one has to distinguish between, ‘what is of the Self’, and ‘what is of the non-Self’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Romany Malco

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

— Melissa Sue Anderson

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

— Gore Vidal

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

— Benjamin Franklin

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive…

— Dave Reichert

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped…

— Mary J. Blige

Our water resources are an essential part of our identity as Michiganders. They're a pillar of our economy, recreation industry, and national…

— John E. James

Since Mark Richt took his offense from Florida State to Georgia, Florida State has been floundering. They have no identity. They have…

— Lee Corso

“You yourself are in the form of ego. As long as there is ignorance of the Self, you are in the egoism…

— Dada Bhagwan

“I've come to realize we're all two different people. Our younger, innocent self that's inevitably mangled along the highway of life, and…

— Phil Stern

Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land…

— Kevin McCloud

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

One of the challenges is to create an equally positive, satisfying sense of femininity and feminine identity in a different way so…

— Peggy Orenstein

“Viktor Frankl used the metaphor of geometric dimensions to illustrate challenges in perception and understanding. Just as a three-dimensional cylinder projected onto…

— Laura Patryas

“For this equality belongs to the post-Renaissance world of ideology-of political magic and the alchemical science” of politics. Envy is the basis…

— M.E. Bradford

These days, the selfie and its main outlet, Instagram, generally come in for much adult loathing. But consider this: The selfie is…

— Rachel Simmons

For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around…

— Gail Collins

“Our identity is in Christ, not in our work, our accomplishments or our own good works. Our provision is from God alone,…

— Paddick Van Zyl

“Those who see Me in everything and everything in Me, know the staggering truth that the Self in the individual is the…

— The Bhagavad Gita

“As the mind of the individual develops within various contexts, such as the family or different educational institutions, it seeks out those…

— Steven Grosby

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

— Brian Tracy

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

— Matthew Rhys

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

— Ann Leckie

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Amy Leigh Mercree

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

— oscar wilde

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

— Margaret Rutherford

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

— Robin Sharma

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

— James A. Baldwin

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

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

— Willa Gibbs

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

— Paul Ricoeur

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

— Vivienne Ming

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

— Doug Cooper

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

— Robert Penn Warren

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater