Identity Quotes
I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.
Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.
We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.
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.
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.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.
For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process.
Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.
Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity
Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.
When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.
Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.
The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.