Identity Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone's true spiritual identity. And then our greatest joy is in sharing.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Joy, Glorious

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Sports, Football

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.51, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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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• The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

  Jimmy Page

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.

  Lorrie Moore

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

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• The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

  Dan Chaon

  Feelings, Fiction, Way

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dan Chaon". Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15, 2009.

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• Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

  Dan Chaon

  Character, Thinking, Issues

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• I think something for us that we're always interested in is how people interpret the music or the band for themselves, and that sort of level of interactivity for us specifically is really awesome, but I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acorns, Fullness, Oaks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Oneness, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

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• I wasn't looking to be an Indian brass band, but to be a band that reflected my complete identity as an American. The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now. Within Red Baraat, there are varied musical backgrounds and personalities and that lends itself to many great thoughts and ideas; it's what makes social science, or more precisely, social interaction so interesting to me.

  Sunny Jain

  People, Interesting, Personality

  "With Red Baraat, Always a Dhol Moment". Interview With Emily Loftis, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Marriage, Names, Boredom

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Years, Confusion

  "The total library : non-fiction 1922-1986". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1999.

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• Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Nerves, Self Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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• Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Drama, Mind, Tragedy

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• You are, when all is done-just what you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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