--- title: "15 Search for identity Quotes by 14 authors" description: "Browse 15 Search for identity quotes by 14 authors. Discover the best Search for identity sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ce/martin-luther-king-jr-127_assertive_when-the-negro-was-completely-an-underdo_2185816.png" --- > [When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well… But now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/when-the-negro-was-completely-an-underdog-he-needed-white-spokesmen/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ce/martin-luther-king-jr-127_assertive_when-the-negro-was-completely-an-underdo_2185816.png) > [I think within our music there is a real strong idea of search, search for identity, search for place, search for time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-kerr/i-think-within-our-music-there-is-a-real-strong-idea-of-search-search/) [Jim Kerr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-kerr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/jim-kerr-5286_identity_i-think-within-our-music-there-is-a-real_391879.jpg) > [I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-made-a-vow-that-i-wouldn-t-be-tempted-by-what-could-happen-to-me-if/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fb/derek-walcott-2220_europe_i-made-a-vow-that-i-wouldn-t-be-tempted_2675654.jpg) > [One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/one-thing-you-can-t-intend-is-how-you-will-be-read-i-hear-it-said-a/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/zadie-smith-584_about_one-thing-you-can-t-intend-is-how-you-wi_2643405.png) > [The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-e-boulding/the-troubles-of-the-20th-century-are-not-unlike-those-of-adolescence/) [Kenneth E. Boulding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-e-boulding/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/818/kenneth-e-boulding-3728_20th-century_the-troubles-of-the-20th-century-are-not_2690193.png) > [The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-cousineau/the-journey-of-the-hero-is-about-the-courage-to-seek-the-depths-the/) [Phil Cousineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-cousineau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/phil-cousineau-15226_change_the-journey-of-the-hero-is-about-the-cou_1432126.jpg) > [“She: The Final Becoming There comes a moment, one that’s often overlooked or misinterpreted, where the search for identity stops being a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-rose/she-the-final-becoming-there-comes-a-moment-one-that-s-often/) L. Rose [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/775/l-rose-78853_adventure_she-the-final-becoming-there-comes-a-mom_1886079.jpg) > [For every teenager there are issues that make finding it hard. These girls are totally unique and totally like every teenager everywhere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-goldstein-knowlton/for-every-teenager-there-are-issues-that-make-finding-it-hard-these/) [Linda Goldstein Knowlton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-goldstein-knowlton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c22/linda-goldstein-knowlton-53954_compassion_for-every-teenager-there-are-issues-that_2181946.jpg) > [Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/re-vision-the-act-of-looking-back-of-seeing-with-fresh-eyes-of-3/) [Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a62/adrienne-rich-803_assumption_re-vision-the-act-of-looking-back-of-see_1063661.png) > [“Prayer helps us overcome the fear that is related to building our life just on the interpersonal—“What does he or she think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-j-m-nouwen/prayer-helps-us-overcome-the-fear-that-is-related-to-building-our/) [Henri J.M. Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-j-m-nouwen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a3/henri-j-m-nouwen-4122_fear_prayer-helps-us-overcome-the-fear-that-i_1467890.jpg) > [“Another example of this is astrology. Multitudes of believers are subconsciously bound to the characteristics and weaknesses of their "zodiac sign." In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-frangipane/another-example-of-this-is-astrology-multitudes-of-believers-are/) [Francis Frangipane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-frangipane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad0/francis-frangipane-17450_change_another-example-of-this-is-astrology-mul_104268.png) > [“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/re-vision-the-act-of-looking-back-of-seeing-with-fresh-eyes-of-2/) [Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/adrienne-rich-803_feminism_re-vision-the-act-of-looking-back-of-see_948460.png) > [“Blushing manifests the exposure, the unexpectedness, the involuntary nature of shame. In On Shame and the Search for Identity Helen Lynd writes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bradshaw/blushing-manifests-the-exposure-the-unexpectedness-the-involuntary/) [John Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bradshaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/john-bradshaw-2227_nature_blushing-manifests-the-exposure-the-unex_1973429.jpg) > [“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-romantic-journey-was-usually-a-solitary-one-although-the-romantic/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/ronald-carter-13636_dreams_the-romantic-journey-was-usually-a-solit_2314487.jpg) > [“DECEMBER 8 If Christ is your life, you are free from the desperate quest to find life in situations, locations, and relationships.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-david-tripp/december-8-if-christ-is-your-life-you-are-free-from-the-desperate/) [Paul David Tripp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-david-tripp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b28/paul-david-tripp-1637_adventure_december-8-if-christ-is-your-life-you-ar_1282909.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/search-for-identity/#itemlist", "name": "Search for identity Quotes", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. 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For so long, She was chasing something—an image, a truth, a version of herself that seemed just out of reach. It was as if each step She took toward understanding only moved the horizon farther away. She was always becoming, but never fully being. And yet, isn’t that the nature of life? To exist in the space between what we were and what we will be, constantly caught in the act of unfolding.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "L. 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Who is my friend? Who is my enemy? Whom do I like? Dislike? Who rewards me? Punishes me? Says good things about me? Or doesn’t?” We are concerned about personal identity and distinctions from others. As long as our sense of self depends on what other people think about us and say about us, and on how they respond to us, we become prisoners of the interpersonal, of that interlocking of people, of clinging to each other in a search for identity; we are no longer free but fearful.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henri J.M. 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Multitudes of believers are subconsciously bound to the characteristics and weaknesses of their \"zodiac sign.\" In their search for identity, this mixture of deceptive facts and illusions was absorbed into their soul, where it continues to stand even today in direct opposition to God's work of transformation. 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Multitudes of believers are subconsciously bound to the…” — Francis Frangipane", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society. A radical critique of literature, feminist in its impulse, would take the work first of all as a clue to how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to imagine ourselves, how our language has trapped as well as liberated us, how the very act of naming has been till now a male prerogative, and how we can begin to see and name--and therefore live--afresh. A change in the concept of sexual identity is essential if we are not going to see the old political order reassert itself in every new revolution. We need to know the writing of the past, and know it differently than we have ever known it; not to pass on a tradition but to break its hold over us.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adrienne Rich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/re-vision-the-act-of-looking-back-of-seeing-with-fresh-eyes-of-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/adrienne-rich-803_feminism_re-vision-the-act-of-looking-back-of-see_948460.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/adrienne-rich-803_feminism_re-vision-the-act-of-looking-back-of-see_948460.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/adrienne-rich-803_feminism_re-vision-the-act-of-looking-back-of-see_948460.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical…” — Adrienne Rich", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Blushing manifests the exposure, the unexpectedness, the involuntary nature of shame. In On Shame and the Search for Identity Helen Lynd writes, “One’s feeling is involuntarily exposed; one is uncovered.” Blushing is the manifestation of our human limits. The ability to blush is a metaphor for our essentially limited humanity. With blushing comes the impulse to “cover one’s face,” “bury one’s face,” “save face,” or “sink into the ground.”With blushing we know we’ve made a mistake. Why would we have such a capacity if mistakes were not part of our essential nature? Blushing as a manifestation of healthy shame keeps us grounded. It reminds us of our core human boundary. It is a signal for us not to get carried away with our own excellence.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Bradshaw" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bradshaw/blushing-manifests-the-exposure-the-unexpectedness-the-involuntary/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/john-bradshaw-2227_nature_blushing-manifests-the-exposure-the-unex_1973429.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/john-bradshaw-2227_nature_blushing-manifests-the-exposure-the-unex_1973429.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/john-bradshaw-2227_nature_blushing-manifests-the-exposure-the-unex_1973429.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Blushing manifests the exposure, the unexpectedness, the involuntary nature of shame. 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This coincides with the characteristic Romantic images of the solitary heroic individual, the spiritual outcast 'alone, alone, all, all alone' like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and John Clare's 'I'; like Shelley's Alastor, Keats's Endymion, or Byron's Manfred, who reached beyond the normal social codes and normal human limits so that 'his aspirations/Have been beyond the dwellers of the earth'. Wordsworth, who lived to be an old man, wrote poems throughout his life in which his poetic vision is stimulated by a single figure or object set against a natural background. Even his projected final masterpiece was entitled The Recluse. 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You don’t need to search for identity. You don’t need to look for something to give you the inner sense of well-being that every person wants. You don’t have to wonder if you’ll ever be loved. You don’t have to worry that your life and work will result in nothing. You don’t have to wonder if you’ll have what you need to face what will be on your plate today. You don’t have to worry about your future. You will never be left to the limited range of your own resources. You will never, ever be left alone. There is always someone who understands you and offers you the help that you need. You don’t have to worry about whether your wrongs will be forgiven and your weaknesses greeted with patience and grace. You don’t have to worry, because you have a Savior who has invaded your life with his grace and has made you the place where he dwells. So you have been freed from the endless quest for life that consumes so many people. So many look for life where it cannot be found. They hope their marriages will give them the happiness they have not yet found. They look to their jobs to give them identity. They look to people and possessions to give them peace. They don’t know it, but they are asking the situations, locations, and relationships of everyday life to be their saviors. Sadly, they’re drinking from wells that are dry and eating bread that will never satisfy. The situations, locations, and relationships of daily life are wonderful to enjoy, but we must understand that they will never, ever satisfy our hearts. For that, we have been given a true Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. So instead of wasting time on that endless quest for life, you have been invited to enter into God’s rest for the rest of your life. Rest in your identity as his child. Rest in his eternal love. Rest in his powerful grace. Rest in his constant presence and faithful provision. Rest in his patience and forgiveness. Rest.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul David Tripp" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-david-tripp/december-8-if-christ-is-your-life-you-are-free-from-the-desperate/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b28/paul-david-tripp-1637_adventure_december-8-if-christ-is-your-life-you-ar_1282909.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b28/paul-david-tripp-1637_adventure_december-8-if-christ-is-your-life-you-ar_1282909.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b28/paul-david-tripp-1637_adventure_december-8-if-christ-is-your-life-you-ar_1282909.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“DECEMBER 8 If Christ is your life, you are free from the desperate quest to find life in situations…” — Paul David Tripp", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/search-for-identity/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/search-for-identity/", "name": "Search for identity Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/search-for-identity/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ce/martin-luther-king-jr-127_assertive_when-the-negro-was-completely-an-underdo_2185816.png" }, "description": "Browse 15 Search for identity quotes by 14 authors. 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