Personal Identity Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. — Parker J. Palmer
The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical… — Camille Paglia
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little… — Erving Goffman
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,… — Thomas Merton
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery:… — Roberto Calasso
Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown. — Neil Postman
The actor has a constant problem of personal identity. — Cyril Cusack
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with… — Jack Heffron
In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive… — Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in a natural way.… — Mooji
The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity. — Oswald Chambers
I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having… — Cliff Martinez
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided… — Parker J. Palmer
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in… — Walker Percy
The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager. — Haim Ginott
It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of… — Hunter S. Thompson
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied. — Boris Trajkovski
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great… — Chuck Palahniuk
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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