Identity Quotes · Page 88

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a…

— Troye Sivan

“Self-love is the best love, and you're the only one who gives it.”

— Jasmine Sandozz

The challenge is to be ur self in a world that is trying to make u like everyone else

— Crystal

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

— Northrop Frye

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

— David Duchovny

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

— Samuel Smiles

“You didn't just find a self out there waiting. You had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to…

— Brit Bennett

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

— Ramana Maharshi

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its…

— Dick Francis

“Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as…

— Michael L. Morgan

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing,…

— Nawal El Saadawi

In 1966 I recorded my first bolero album. I was about 18 years old then and I recorded it because I wanted…

— Jose Feliciano

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that…

— George Harrison

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely…

— Amitava Kumar

One side of my family cooked this way, talked this way, celebrate this way, traditions is this way, and then one of…

— Latto

“Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth…

— Cornel West

An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated…

— Anonymous

“What is the measure of the fact that one has realized One's own state as the Self (nijswaroop)? It is in accordance…

— Dada Bhagwan

Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In…

— Parker J. Palmer

“I’d lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Some masks are worn to hide weakness. Gabriel had worn that kind for years— a lowered gaze, a tired back, a silence…

— Valon G

“Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for…

— Carl Safina

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all…

— Edward Dahlberg

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

— May Sarton

“Your self-image is a governor of sorts. It will never let you act in a way that is inconsistent with it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

— Sherman Alexie

The politics of identity, cancellation, and mob rule are not acceptable to me.

— Daniel Cameron

“Self-stigma can be just a big a problem as the negative attitudes of others.”

— Megan A. Arroll

I feel uncomfortable if I'm not my self in any situation.

— David Baddiel

“When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

— Elvis Costello

“Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it.”

— Afnan Ahmad Mia

“I can be anything you want but definitely not a wannabe.”

— Pushpa Rana

“Well, life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”

— Sherman Alexie

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

— Naftali Bennett

I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.

— Rajneesh

“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.”

— Neeraj Singhvi

Identity the positives of a negative situation and cling to them tenaciously.

— Varsha Sharma

It's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for.

— Mick Dodson