Identity Quotes · Page 82

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.

— Janet Frame

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

— Paul Achleitner

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

— Victor Cruz

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

— Robin Sharma

Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear.

— Sonam Kapoor

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

— Edgar Friedenberg

“Identity cannot be found or fabricated but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go.”

— Doug Cooper

When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of…

— Jim Fixx

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

— Rem Koolhaas

I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come…

— Sarah McBride

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his…

— Timothy Keller

I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as…

— Hakuin Ekaku

It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal…

— Frederick Lenz

“...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many…

— Erving Goffman

“To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God…

— Leonard Sweet

I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because…

— Scott Turow

“My identity as Jewish cannot be reduced to a religious affiliation. Professor Said quoted Gramsci, an author that I’m familiar with, that,…

— R.F. Georgy

We are on our way to blockchains as the fabric of society - the system for what we own (assets), who we…

— Fred Ehrsam

I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by…

— Robert H. Schuller

“I look in the mirror and see myself, and yet I really don’t. Only an image is perceived, not things I will…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for,…

— Tituss Burgess

“One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that…

— Nathaniel Branden

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the…

— Virginia Woolf

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

— Jeanette Winterson

“The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.”

— Bryant McGill

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“masculinity lies rather in the problem of identity,” Schlesinger concluded”

— Susan Faludi

When we give God our lives, we become our truest selves.

— Lacey Sturm

“God will put you in a position to wrestle with your identity and choose whom you believe: Him or you.”

— Beth Moore

My sense of self and my mental HEALTH Is much more powerful than any hint of WEALTH.

— M O'zee

“I am made in the image of God. Therefore, if I don’t know God I can’t know me.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.”

— Alex Lamb

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

— Henry Rollins

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

— Charles S. Maier

You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

I'm a hard-working individual and I think that's what separates me.

— Davis Webb

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

— Doug Liman

“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.”

— Lauren Slater