2,417 Quotes About Identity

[E]very emotion represents self-interest (self-love modified) orself-evidence. Owning up to all of our self-representation and object-representation is to recognize the full nature of our identity.

I get happy and I get sad,just like anybody elsebut they call this a disorder.

You are not a paltry replica of your own razor shadow.

Also, now that I know roughly who I am, I want to close my eyes and hide from it.

In my opinion, to assume a persons’ motivations, life experiences or self identity may, at best, demonstrate one’s ignorance and, at worst, display one’s hubris.

We define ourselves in different ways, according to culture, family, peer group, and world-view. By what we enjoy doing, and what we don’t enjoy doing. By what we’ve experienced, and what we would like to experience. It all comes together to form the basis of ‘us’. Losing your compass, your passion, meaning, or purpose—could lead towards pain or towards discovery.

In our formative years, every person begins creating a self that can keep him or her company through later stages in life. It requires concentrated effort to create self-hood. The task of creating a fully developed human being is an ongoing process, an open-ended assignment. The goal of self-hood is to evade slipping into a state of thoughtlessness, where we fail to take ownership of our thoughts, deeds, and lifestyle.

A person without a crystalline sense of self lives a mythless existence; they lack a definitive path to follow in life. Deprived of a solid sense of self, dispossessed of a connection to the past, destitute of a grounding sense in the present, a person leads a leaden and aimless existence.

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...