Identity Quotes · Page 78

I have a self-deprecating sense of humor, so I knock myself.

— Big Show

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

— Elias Canetti

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

— Livy

I love you for who you are as an individual; you being yourself is enough to make me love you more.

— Anonymous

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

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity…

— Robert M. Lindner

It is unacceptable that Democrat leaders would rather push their divisive agenda and focus only on identity politics instead of holding hearings…

— Ronny Jackson

“love no one until you can love yourself, for love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

— Ai Weiwei

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

— Stephen Covey

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army…

— Michelle Shocked

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…

— Karen Armstrong

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to…

— Alicia Garza

In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals… The familybecame a special…

— Kenneth Keniston

“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in…

— Abhijit Naskar

The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only…

— K.P. Yohannan

“I wish I'd been accepted sooner and better. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am…

— Andrew Solomon

“individuals who were more or less happy with themselves, secure in their own souls, usually opened themselves to new friendships. It was…

— Noah Gordon

The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate…

— Bhikkhu Analayo

“It seems to me that we value individuality, but only to a point. When what sets one person apart from another is…

— Kiera Cass

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

— Anna C Salter

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

— Sticking To Your Self

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

— Sean Wilsey

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Mark Zuckerberg

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

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

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

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

— Fernando Pessoa

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

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

— Suzanne Segal

“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

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

— Sara Teasdale