Self Identity Quotes
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Self Identity Quotes & Sayings
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We must not be anything other than what we are.
— Maaza Mengiste
He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.
— James R. Silvestri
When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.
— Roshan Sharma
You cannot hide your true self forever.
— Cassandra Clare
My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
— Robert Griffin III
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
— Dorothy West
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
— Frank Herbert
Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings.
— Lars Fr. H. Svendsen
Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.
— Toni Sorenson
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
— Frederick Lenz
Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.
— Fennel Hudson
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.
— Jerzy Kosinski
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
— Coco Chanel
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
— John O'Donohue
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
— Ralph Ellison
An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.
— Sam Owen
Feelings are something you have; not something you are.
— Shannon L. Alder
It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.
— James Baldwin
Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last.
— Jill Telford
At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?
— Colum McCann
Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?
— Slash Coleman
If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.
— Richard Wright
you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain.
— Peter Watts
What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don't need to be wasted on naming things.
— Doug Cooper
Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.
— Bryant McGill
Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.
— Mary J. Blige
I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
— Raquel Cepeda
You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.
— Dawn Gluskin
Until you have answered the question "Who am I" you will not be capable of living your own life
— Sunday Adelaja
No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.
— Karen C. Eddington
The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed - your self.
— Haruki Murakami
I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.
— Beatrice Sparks
Time alone helps us to remember who we are.
— Fennel Hudson
Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The power of ignorance can make a powerful man look powerless
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.
— Chris Matakas
No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I protect myself by refusing to know myself.
— Floriano Martins
The world will lose something if you do not find yourself, if you do not answer the question "Who am I
— Sunday Adelaja
A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity.
— Michael J. Fox
Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Enjoy being you. Have fun. And be different.
— Fennel Hudson
Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.
— Hugo Hamilton
What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.
— Edmund Wilson
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
— Charlotte Bronte
When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.
— Terry Tempest Williams
I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.
— Melanie Hooyenga
Don't let them make anything of you but yourself, that's all.
— L.M. Montgomery
Be sure that whatever you are is you.
— Theodore Roethke
My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.
— Laurie Nadel
The less human you feel, the more human you become.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
— Alfred Korzybski
In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.
— Gelsey Kirkland
Who you are depends on who you meet.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
— Dawn Gluskin
Hold unto your Dreams and Visions for our heros past
did and history have written their names in Gold — Ikechukwu Joseph
did and history have written their names in Gold — Ikechukwu Joseph
Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.
— Johnny Rich
This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.
— DaShanne Stokes
There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.
— Floriano Martins
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?
— Ruben Papian
Unlock untie yourself from people who rope u into redundancy
— Ikechukwu Joseph
I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials
— Sunday Adelaja
The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.
— Floriano Martins
To know your purpose, you have to find yourself
— Sunday Adelaja
So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!
— Ambrose Bierce
I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Everything is music for the born musician.
— Romain Rolland
It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
— Sara Baume
Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer
— Sunday Adelaja
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
A lot of mothers incorrectly see the meaning of their lives as being the designer or creator of their child's life
— Sunday Adelaja
If I don't know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
— Marian Sandmaier
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
— Will Self
If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.
— Suzy Kassem
Identity is invariably false to facts.
— Alfred Korzybski
Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.
— Fennel Hudson
Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl
— Miranda July
Typical me
hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction. — Katie McGarry
hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction. — Katie McGarry
Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art
— Steven Pressfield
To know your purpose, you must identify yourself in the world and know who you are in the world
— Sunday Adelaja