Identity Quotes

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  Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Effort, Inspire

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

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• My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Race, Might

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

  Julie Delpy

  Relationship, Romantic, Single

  "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Daughter, Spiritual, Mean

  "Bread For The Journey". Book by Henri Nouwen (p. 210), 1996.

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• Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

  Alan Rudolph

  Moments, Fragile Things, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Reflection

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2017

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• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  Beatrice Webb

  Writing, Would Be, Diaries

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press

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• We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Needs

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• Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

  Paul Ricoeur

  Order, Stories, Movement

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• An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

  James A. Baldwin

  Use, Way, Faces

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• The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Knowing Who You Are, True Happiness

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• We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

  Chip Conley

  Keys, Self, World

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

  June Jordan

  Who I Am, America, Soul

  1969 'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.

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• I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Life, Men, Earth

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Light, People

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.268, McClelland & Stewart

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• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Ice, Weakness

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.60, Bantam

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• All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  True Identity, Discomfort, Suppressing

  "Why You Aren’t Who You’re Supposed to Be" by Matthew B. James, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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• Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

  Don DeLillo

  Hero, Writing, Individual

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.143, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

  Stephen Covey

  Strength, Self Esteem, Emotional

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.133, Mango Media Inc.

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• Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

  David Quammen

  Animal, Wildlife, Affair

  David Quammen (2012). “The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

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