Identity Quotes · Page 113

Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

— William Rose Benet

I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.

— Abbi Jacobson

To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

— Friedrich Schiller

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

— Tariq Ramadan

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

— James Mark Baldwin

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

— Akira Kurosawa

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

— Diane Arbus

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to…

— Aldous Huxley

“My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from…

— Fernando Pessoa

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got…

— Melissa Etheridge

Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all,…

— Jessica Mauboy

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know…

— Liz Phair

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

— Marshall McLuhan

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

— C. J. Mahaney

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

— Jake Barton

I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount…

— Jon Stewart

People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human…

— Hyon Gyon

I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this…

— Ryan Gosling

This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship…

— Robert Penn Warren

“I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of…

— F. Sionil Jose

As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every…

— Ludwig von Mises

“There is nothing like the "real" me or the "real" you because we are all more than this or that. We are…

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.”

— Yurii Ivchenko

“I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

— Erich Fromm

“The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If you look into the mirror, do you know the person looking back at you?

— Anonymous

“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.”

— Lauren Slater

“Passion and talent with right knowledge and consistent practice leads to self fulfilment.”

— Anonymous

Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.

— Mia Hamm

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

— Joaquin Miller

I wont change for any guy. If he really loves me he will accept me for who I am.

— Nessa Nicolee

My ultimate goal and our ultimate goal is to be individuals, to sustain what we been able to sustain.

— Nelly

“It's only by owning our struggles and embracing what makes us unique that we grow.”

— Elle Jauffret

“All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity.”

— Bryant McGill

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

— Paulo Freire

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

— Vance Havner