95 Quotes About Self-identity

Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or her grievous errors.

First off, contrary to popular belief, I'm as human as you are. One of us should probably be ashamed of that. I'm not entirely sure that it's me.

Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.

I am made in the image of God. Therefore, if I don’t know God I can’t know me.

We need to know who we are and then stand strong

Staying true to who you are is essential to anyone's success.

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.

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