Identity Quote by Melanie Benjamin

“I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all…

— Yeonmi Park

“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.”

— Ivan Turgenev

“No one who keeps his mind focussed entirely upon himself, can grow large, strong and beautiful in character”

— Muhammad (PBUH

“. . . to survive the dark and often terrifying passage of my life I came to believe certain thing about myself . .…

— Nicole Krauss

“I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance”

— Amy Tan

“During this time, I proved to myself that I was as good as other authors who had achieved the same stature. But I quickly…

— Colette Baron Reid

“I experienced a devastating loss of self...But in the same moment, I also recognized that a profound commitment had taken root inside me, and…

— Judith Warner

“I had the patience to sit like a fool with these people, listening to them for four hours on end, and never daring say…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I could not stand it, neither the words on the page nor what they told me about myself. My neck and teeth began to…

— Dorothy Allison

“I feel so many things growing—my individuality, my confidence; I feel lines of my character growing stronger. I’m really sprouting, springing up, with mixed…

— Anaïs Nin

“Experience has taught me that my own body is the source of all the vital information that has enabled me to achieve greater autonomy…

— Alice Miller

“At such times I felt instinctively that a life and death struggle was going on inside me in which I, the owner of the…

— Gopi Krishna