2,417 Quotes About Identity

Brush your teeth. You do it the same way every morning, in fact. Eight to the left... eight to the right... There is a pattern in which you’ve unknowingly performed for years, a sort of ‘Toothbrush Song.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.