2,417 Quotes About Identity

Your addiction is not your identity, but you won't know that until you're in recovery; that's when the two separate.

We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.

The things you hate and fight are shaping your identity. If your enemies are not worthy enough to define you, stop giving them importance. They will fade away and stop existing for you.

Clinicians should be trained to identify any underlying conditions that may be associated with homelessness.

Be careful what you hate, because that's what you'll become.

When we grant ourselves permission to grieve, we make the experience of grief something we recognize, something we welcome into our lives. We allow it to show up the way it wants to through feelings, identities, and actions. We write our own expectations and stories. Our grief becomes ours again and we become more ourselves again because we actively choose to experience grief.

Feelings should be honored and given a voice. Still, like the storm that threatened Peter, the feelings we carry are real, and they're worth listening to - but they don't always tell us the truth about our identity and safety.

Never confuse image over identity, image is what people says you are and identity is who you really are.

A life is long, and we are many people, variously, in our guises, in our situations, but some part of us is the same, and what I felt as a boy I find myself able to feel now -- a sad and powerful longing for a future that did not ever come, with all its attendant worries and fears.