Identity Quotes - Page 17

• In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Fighting, Buddhism

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• I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.

  Keith Millard

  Football, Men, Thinking

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• Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.

  Leslie Moonves

  Creating, People, Want

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• The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

  David Whyte

  Doe, Good Questions, Asking

  "Big Questions to Ask Yourself Throughout Your Life" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• My hair is my identity.

  Ethan Zohn

  Hair

  "Former 'Survivor' champ battling cancer". www.today.com. May 18, 2009.

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• There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Way, Feels, Humiliate

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• Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.

  Mira Bartok

  Mother, Children, Book

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• I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Chips, Happens

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

  Erica Jong

  Memories, Humanity, Crux

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.52, Penguin

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• It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.

  Richard Wagner

  Law, People, Feelings

  Diary entry for November 14, 1878. "Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgment". Book edited by Geoffrey Skelton, 1994.

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• To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Mean, Lacking

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Battle, Culture, Recognition

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• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Oneness, Diversity

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

  John Keats

  Poetry, Literature, Body

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, What Matters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• There is no German identity without Auschwitz.

  Joachim Gauck

  Auschwitz

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• To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Hands

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• I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

  Vaclav Havel

  World, Tests, Dignity

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• Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Play, Individuality, Roles

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

  Andrew Comiskey

  Males, Female, Gender

  Andrew Comiskey (2009). “Strength in Weakness: Healing Sexual and Relational Brokenness”, p.25, InterVarsity Press

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• 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

  Self, Slavery, Faces

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.6

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• A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Awareness, Geography

  "Inhale and Exhale". Book by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.

  James McGreevey

  Children, Confused, Who I Am

  "McGreevey Describes 'Intensely Personal Decision' in Speech". James McGreevey's speech televised live from Trenton, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2004.

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• If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The voice you loved to hear, you will hear again. The identity of the one you were near to on Earth remains the same, and instant recognition will be yours as you meet, never to part again. Your beloved one is only lost awhile.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Heart, Dear Ones, Voice

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• The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.

  E. J. Dionne

  War, Battle, Culture

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