Identity Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Your self is your pure consciousness, which flows as it likes. Your personal self is the way you perceive yourself and the patterns of…

— The Unthered Soul

“You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in others’ terms.”

— Shawn Davis

“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We develop a sense of self by coming to see ourselves in the reflections of how others see us - what they reflect back…

— Jacqui Stedmon

“To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The self that is self we imagined we were our whole lives. But we were never that self, not really. We were only a…

— Cecil Baldwin

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

— Meister Eckhart

“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self…

— Alice Pung

“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

“There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify…

— Thomas Merton

“Sometimes when I look deep within the folds of myself I find a terrifying possibility that I am a different person inside.”

— Serenity Lillibridge

“...if I see myself only in terms of myself, I am always going to be wrong. To fully understand who I am and what…

— John Hunter