Identity Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity
“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 Copy Share Image
“We all take on identities that are not true to ourselves. Sometimes we choose to become what the world expects to see of us,… — Kieran Shields Copy Share Image
“Identity negates possibility, denies openness to other life. Identity kills, both metaphorically and very, very literally.” — John Holloway Copy Share Image
“Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities to which… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Identity cannot be found or fabricated but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Identity claims are either directed toward others or directed at the self, and both kinds have their own psychological functions.” — Sam Gosling Copy Share Image
“Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.” — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
“You are one, and we are many, We are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. We are the face of justice.” — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
“When we latch on to an identity, it’s easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“Once we belong thoroughly to ourselves and believe thoroughly in ourselves, true belonging is ours.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
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