Allegiance Quote by Amy Leach

“Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.”

— Alain de Botton

“There is not identity, nor non-identity, or non-coincidence, there is inside and outside turning about one another.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“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

“Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.”

— Charles Martin

“The truth is, we are never just one thing. We all have many titles and labels, but far too often, we get trapped inside…

— Jessica Brody

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

— Rem Koolhaas

“Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so…

— David Levithan

“Sometimes, it takes an outside perspective to find our true alignment.”

— Harjeet Khanduja

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

— Doug Cooper

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we…

— Nick Joaquín

“The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.”

— John Eldredge