Identity Quotes · Page 131

Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

— Lysa TerKeurst

“Where there is knowledge of the Self, there is eternal peace.”

— Shiva Negi

“When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.”

— Jit Sharma

Destiny changes, fate changes, just believe in your inner self, your dreams and your strength

— Anamika Mishra

“The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.”

— S.R. Hardy

If you build a life around an identity that springs from your own imagination, is it ever inauthentic?

— Caroline Calloway

“Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

— Will Self

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for our…

— Simpleman

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

“You don’t need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It’s the society that needs to see you, through…

— Abhijit Naskar

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can't be Everybody. That is why God made us as individuals...to be Somebody. We may need each other but we don't…

— Terry Mark

Life has taught me that if I want to rise, I have to get over myself. So EGO could be perceived as…

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

“it involves the control or sacrifice of the lower and ignoble self of an individual in order to realize his higher and…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The delight in the moment and the gay façade become an excuse for absolving the listener from the thought of the whole,…

— Adorno

We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more…

— Mike Cahill

The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as…

— Robert Thurman

“Humanism split into three main branches. The orthodox branch holds that each human being is a unique individual possessing a distinctive inner…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just…

— Ashly Lorenzana

“The practice of self-observation mirrors the way in which a mother observes and attunes to her baby. Self-observation is a method of…

— Philippa Perry

“[I]nternalized experiences of selfhood are linked to autobiographical narratives, which are linked to biographies, legal testimonies, and medical case histories, which are…

— Anthony Kenny

“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.…

— Emil Cioran

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

— Darren Hardy

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

— William Shakespeare

It is wisdom to know others; It is enlightenment to know one's self.

— Lao-Tzu

We are multiplicities, and none of us live single-identity lives.

— Janet Mock

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.

— Anonymous

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

— Mike Vallely

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

— Julia Cameron

A great leader gives success to followers, and accepts failure to self.

— Yssubramanyam

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

— Sebastian Faulks

Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.

— Taylor Swift

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

— Patrick Califia

We're all self-conscious, I'm just the first to admit it.

— Kanye West

When you take on a character you try and lose yourself into it because you want to be less self-conscious.

— Adrian Lester

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

— David Byrne

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

— Anonymous

“All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.”

— Bryant McGill