Identity Quote by Michael Adam Hamilton

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and…

— Tara Brach

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and…

— Anonymous

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

— Walter Savage Landor

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

— Charles Krauthammer

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

— Dorothy Rowe

The more real and genuine we are about ourselves, the more others will know that there is no shame in struggling, or feeling low,…

— Sanam Saeed

The craving for things we think are outside ourselves binds us to suffering.

— Senoraroy

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

— Dalai Lama

The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing…

— Dalai Lama

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

— Eckhart Tolle