95 Quotes About Self-identity

The question of ‘who I am’ is far more compelling than the question ‘who I am not.’ For to build on the former is to resolve the question of the latter.

I can tell you who I am, but I’d rather have you watch who I am.

The happy life is impossible without finding an answer to the question “why am I here? What am doing here?

We are each a composite of our prior actions and omissions. Over the course of a lifetime, we each exhibit strong personality tendencies. Absent intentional volition, our personality characteristics became more ingrained as we age.

Humankind’s greatest gift is that we are indeterminate beings. Unlike the tough and leathery seed of an acorn, which will grow into a magnificent oak tree, none of us has a predetermined final configuration of our ultimate essence. Our mental temperament is pliable. We make conscious and subconscious choices that govern who we become.

A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust.

It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)

Had she, in fact, betrayed herself? Talking with them, she missed her old self - deeply, painfully, like a friend. She felt grief pressing in on the afternoon.

Self-identify your gender? Why not self-identify your species, too? I'm a dog now.