Identity Quotes
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings .
The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.
Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.
The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.
"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.
Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into beastly behavior.
The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.
I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together
Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.
Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.
When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?
Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity.
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.