Identity Quotes

My mother once said, 'If you come across a man with more than one personality, you can be sure he's looking for himself in one of them, because he has no character.' But I think she was wrong

I think I’ll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what I need to be. I can change on a whim and be so many different girls and none of them has to be me.

Be what you are not. The true self is no one.

Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am.

Identities were created for clarity and simplicity but it divides!

You can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?

Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves

One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.

I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.

Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.

What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.

You hear me, don't ever let anyone kill the spark inside you. No matter what.

Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.

Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.

They asked you the name of the god you worshipped and you replied, "Myself.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag.

You are a gift to the entire planet earth

I am the other.

You can start looking for your purpose in life after you have identify who you are

The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance

Life isn't always about finding yourself. More often than not, it's about discovering who God created you to be.

To know your purpose, you have to find yourself

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.

It was the only act of rebellion I knew—to be worthy of such an insult as “butterfly.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

how lovers alter in the glance of each other, that space where their moods are accepted and their surrender is never taken advantage of.

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

You know who you are. You have always been other.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

Identity is the role you chose to play in the story of the Universe.

If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.

I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.

We are not defined by the things we accumulate, but by the memories we impart.

Sometimes I just get tired. I get headaches, and I just lose track. I mean, it's like which is me and which is the role? Where's the line between me and my shadow?

Not every good thing in life will remain forever

We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity.

Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka.

It's funny how you can become something merely by forgetting who you once were.

a square is not just about light, air, proportion, and people. It must also give form to some shared notion of civic identity. [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].

It’s a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.

Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

Don't be afraid to be exactly as awesome as you were created to be.

But Krishna was a chameleon.

You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer.