True Identity Quotes

• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Reality, Unity, Awareness

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.138, Anchor

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• There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational, Life, Acceptance

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Life, Wisdom

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  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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• The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Religious, Peace, Ubuntu

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• I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Believe, Creative, Kind

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• I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Believe, Play, Ego

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• When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

  John Stott

  Christian, Identity, Loses

  John R. W. Stott (1959). “Basic Christianity”, p.112, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

  Craig Groeschel

  Miracle, Never Settle, Facts

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• Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the 'integrity that comes from being what you are.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Light, Soul

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity.

  Neil T Anderson

  Christ, Behavior, Who You Are

  Neil T. Anderson, Dave Park (2008). “Stomping Out the Darkness: Discover Your True Identity in Christ and Stop Putting Up with the World's Garbage!”, p.26, Baker Books

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• When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.

  Paula White

  Jobs, Hate, Self

  Source: culteducation.com

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• We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.

  Shriram Sharma

  God, Reality, Essence

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• Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Prayer, Focus, Fervent

  Priscilla Shirer (2015). “Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer”, p.57, B&H Publishing Group

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• Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary.  Your true identity has remained untouched.  You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mistake, Way, Made

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End”, p.141, Random House

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