Identity Quotes · Page 105

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The only place for one to find them self, is within their head.

— Me Myself & I

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

— Ruud Gullit

“We never know self-realization. We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.”

— Fernando Pessoa

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

It's up to the individual to decide when he wants to quit.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

— Dan Chaon

I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.

— Sara Teasdale

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

— Dana Gioia

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge…

— James Mark Baldwin

Everything about you is ugly and it has nothing to do with your features, it has everything to do with your attitude…

— Tommy Sotomayor

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about…

— James McGreevey

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born…

— Ashraf Barhom

An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new…

— Harold Klemp

I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what…

— Rob Mariano

The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind,…

— Peter Matthiessen

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one…

— Steven Pinker

I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for…

— Emmylou Harris

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“We are all storytellers, and if we listen deeply and share honestly, we will find that wonderful feeling of community and wisdom…

— Colette Baron Reid

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are…

— Mark Vonnegut

If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The…

— Herbert Lockyer

“And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip…

— Marlene Van Niekerk

“You meet your higher self the day you turn your back on your lower self.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

— Taiye Selasi

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

— Suzanne Segal

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

— Carl Jung

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.

— Dolph Lundgren

“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”

— Sean Wilsey

On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

— Tenzin Palmo

Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.

— Mark Zuckerberg

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

My whole thing with the whole weight situation is - it is what it is. It's never been my identity.

— Katy Mixon

“I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.”

— Andrea Portes

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

— Louis Althusser

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

— Princess Nokia

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.

— Princess Superstar

No matter how people dislike you..dont change for anyone becus you will always have your self

— Sticking To Your Self

narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

— Anna C Salter