Identity Quotes · Page 69

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

— Twyla Tharp

Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

— Pepper Schwartz

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

— W. Clement Stone

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?

— Zhuangzi

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

— Jean-Francois Cope

“I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“As a Black Woman, I define self-care as the ability to safely and comfortably exhale.”

— Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant

Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.

— John O'Donohue

You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

— Barbara Marciniak

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity…

— Patricia McConnell

The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand…

— Benjamin Carson

While I was doing the first season of 'Girl In The City,' a lot of people remembered me through my character name.…

— Mithila Palkar

Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.

— Austin Carlile

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

— Jim Harrison

Put simply, barring transgender people from restrooms consistent with their gender identity doesn't help anyone, and continuing to allow transgender people to…

— Sarah McBride

At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted…

— Ginger Zee

“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,…

— Judith Lewis Herman

The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and…

— Ali Sina

“You know I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me?…

— Brandon McCartney

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we…

— Julia Cameron

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes…

— Michael Foley

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know…

— Elif Batuman

Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and…

— Frank Herbert

We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again

— David Whyte

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

— Anwar Sadat

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

— Alan Rudolph

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

— Anonymous

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

— Camille Paglia

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

— Rollo May

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

— Demi Moore

You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

— Sue Monk Kidd

The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance

— Seth

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

— Byron Katie

I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.

— Hannah Bronfman

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

— Anonymous

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

— Jerzy Kosinski

There is no individuality if your idea of being original is to follow the trend.

— Anonymous