Identity Quotes

If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out - change your shoes and start walking.

Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.

I was overlooking the heights and I felt somewhere in between!

More often than not- Life moves really fast! It's only for you to pause and breathe! Sadly, none else can do that for you!

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is.

Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

I love the different shades of colours. Purely beautiful!

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place.

It's difficult to become someone you don't know at all. It's difficult, indeed, to become yourself.

If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

When I wake from my nightmaresI’m more afraid of the breath in my lungs than whatever might be chasing me.

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body...

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things...

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last.

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not, ” I was saying my path would be my own.

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

The hardest calling in our lives is to be truly ourselves.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

And what's beyond vastness? It shrinks...

Typical me--hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction.

Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in epic movie.

Why am I trying to be somebody? I am somebody.

When you are clearly-defined, deliberate with intention and operating at your highest level, your brilliance cannot be hidden, diminished or overshadowed.

The price you will offer yourself to the world, is how much they will buy you.

Are you what others say and think you are?  Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?

This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut.

I miss my old life

It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are.