Identity Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”

— Stephen Richards

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves…

— Michel Foucault

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to…

— Diane Ackerman

“The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.”

— S.R. Hardy

“My sense of self hinges upon the belief that what I do matters. That belief has compelled me to venture far from home life,…

— Finbarr O'Reilly

“Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God . . . The great surprise and irony is that "you,"…

— Richard Rohr

“You are the artist of your existence, my dear. So color the canvas of your destiny and mold the shape of your reality. Never…

— Becca Lee

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves…

— Walpola Rahula

“Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself. Self…

— Gian Kumar

“The self that begins the spiritual journey is the self of our own creation, the self we thought ourselves to be. This is the…

— David G. Benner