Quotes About Identity

No knowledge can summarize humans in one premise."

One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature."

Ever since he repented of religion and shaved off his clerical beard and mustache, he has had the constant feeling that he has taken off his trousers, and that his nose protrudes altogether indecently and must at all cost be covered.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

All women are lips, nothing but lips.

From the very earliest ages, our children need to know that they belong to God. God created them for a purpose, and He created them in His image. We are all His image-bearers. We bear His likeness. Our ability to think, love, and communicate indicates that we were created in God's likeness.

I got a few gray hairs to testify to my wisdom, two grand babies, and a long, black dildo named Harry.

I knew you"d never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.

Hanya ada sedikit kejantanan di sini: karena itu wanita-wanita mereka membuat diri mereka jantan. Karena hanya lelaki yang cukup jantan akan -- membangkitkan kewanitaan dalam diri wanita.

Humans'race is just simply full of colors,but human itself is truly complicated.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib people remind us of what we lost trying to get up in the world. See, in the old days, according to Granny Straker, the more you left behind the old ways, the more acceptable you were to the powerful people in the government and the churches who had the power to change a black person's life.

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

But I warn you, I am only really myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just as essential to yourself as if it is a great masterpiece.

I wish I had been what I thought I was; and so debonnaire; and so debonnaire.

She thinks of Dixie with excited identity as being some adult part of herself divorced from her by transfiguring years, like a very sunburned arm which might not appear familiar if you had been unconscious of its alterations.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi?

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.