2,417 Quotes About Identity

Again I quoted a poet—to avoidsounding like a preacher myself —who had written, "Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dirrauben." (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only ourexperiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we havesuffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also akind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see a girl who is prettier than you standing nearby, and think to yourself: "I wish she wasn't here." -This is what happens when you attach your identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention you receive.

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

I don’t care what men say about God. What I care about is what God says about me.

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

The highest religion of human is the identity for which he is living rest is either one of the path or unnecessary fight.

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.