Identity Quote by Patti Smith

“His whole life changed because he changed from focusing on what he did not want, what he was afraid of, what he wanted to…

— Rhonda Byrne

“Ultimately the only way that I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and fulfillment of…

— Thomas Merton

“But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The seductive invitation of metamorphosis - of turning into something other — has continued to suffuse fantasies of identity; on the one hand holding…

— Marina Warner

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”

— Rod Judkins

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying to be…

— Erik Pevernagie

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“I have cultivated several personalities within myself. I constantly cultivate personalities. Each of my dreams, immediately after I dream it, is incarnated into another…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I have a burning desire—an inner flame that will not be extinguished by outer forces—to know and live from higher regions, to be transformed…

— Wayne W. Dyer

“The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn’t understand…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Everything had changed for me, and words that I had never understood before suddenly began to make sense. This came as revelation, and when…

— Paul Auster