Identity Quotes · Page 93

“Why be normal, Like most others: When you crave to be an individual?”

— Michelle Geaney

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

— Anne Lamott

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

— Tia Mowry

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

— Oscar Wilde

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.

— Steve Maraboli

People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

— Jan Neruda

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality…

— Gay Hendricks

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for…

— Gayle Forman

So much of our lives is surrendered to subordinating ourselves to the needs and whims of others, turning human beings into cash…

— Owen Jones

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

— Che Guevara

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

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

“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

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

— Dada Bhagwan

A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet.…

— Kenny Smith

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in…

— Thomas Merton

“So what good is to be found in today’s metropolitan areas, amidst all the alienation, the anonymity, and the lack of cohesiveness…

— Jonathan Berent

In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of…

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

“Apart from the agglomeration of huge masses in which the individual disappears anyway, one of the chief factors responsible for psychological mass-mindedness…

— C.G. Jung

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in…

— Lydia Lunch

“But after I had imployed some years in thus studying the Book of the World, and endeavouring to get experience, I took…

— René Descartes

“When we separate ourselves from the rest of the world, the world becomes a lonely and difficult place to live in. When…

— Tom Walsh

“Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.”

— Gayle Forman

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

— Erik Erikson

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

— Mackenzie Phillips

Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am...your master.

— Griffin Jay

I don't know if I'm a sequels kind of person. I prefer each film to have its own unique identity.

— Panos Cosmatos

“Living in alignment with your true self enables you to cultivate transparency and unshakable authenticity.”

— Susan C. Young

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

— LeAnn Rimes

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

Everyone is their own individual and if you're not happy with that then you really gotta think about yourself.

— Rhea Ripley

“Your true identity is far more than the sum total of your parents’ flesh or names.”

— Candace L. Talmadge

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

— Kat Graham

I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little.

— Michael Pena

Always respect your sefbeing. Never sacrifice your self entity for any one. Always remain what you are.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“I remember the moment I realized I was free, looking in a mirror and saying, “I choose my motherfucking self.”

— Gabrielle Union

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

— Abraham Maslow

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

— Mili Avital