Quotes About Identity

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Louise often feels like part of her is "acting." At the same time , "there is another part 'inside' that is not connecting with the me that is talking to you," she says. When the depersonalization is at its most intense, she feels like she just doesn't exist. These experiences leave her confused about who she really is, and quite often, she feels like an "actress" or simply, "a fake.

Trapped within the confines of his mind, he is too aware of every thought passing through it, as if he were outside, looking in. At night he often lies awake ruminating endlessly about what's wrong with him, about death, and about the meaning of existence itself. At times his arms and legs feel like they don't belong with his body. But most of the time, his mind feels like it is operating apart from the body that contains it.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. —ALBERT CAMUS

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the fields

Now when I was fifteen, oh I knew it was over The road to enchantment was not mine to take Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made. And all I could eat was the poisonous apple And that's not a story I was meant to survive I was all out of choices, but the woman of voices She turned round the corner with music around her, She gave me the language that keeps me alive

The only word for love is everybody's name.

We are cool, and we know it, and our people know it!" That's what the capitol complex in Madison, Wisconsin, seems to exclaim every time I've played in that city.

What makes the soul who it is, if not the choices the person makes while he's alive?

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.

You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.

It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist.

You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.

Ero distratto... Scusa... Perché dici che io non ho più anima? Perché fingi di essere così profondo, e gli altri invece tutti merde?

You are chosen by the Creator of the universe—the One who knows you by name and never forgets you. He is the One who took us from "nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.

I realized that my identity was not in my leading but in my relationship with God.

when the why we do what we do doesn't permeate in all that we do, our value systems give evidence that we do not have enough truth to successfully support what we do and who we are.

Living inside an over-sized body, I felt safer than I had in years. But something was missing. My heartbeat, I could no longer feel it beneath the walls of fat and pain." Small Pleasures: Mya's Story

Every act, says Thich Nhat Hanh, should be a ritual of mindfulness awakening us to our true identity of interbeing. "True mind is our real self, is the Buddha: the pure one-ness which cannot be cut up by the illusory divisions of separate selves, created by concepts and language" (Naht Hanh, 1975, p. 42).

at mid-life the process Jung called "individuation" begins in earnest. It is the process of making those choices that will express one's own unique answer to the problem of death. "If I must die someday, and I cannot do everything, then I must choose what I will do, what matters most, who I will be in the time allotted to me." Figure

The majority of governmental workers wear his or her personality not on their sleeves but on ID badges.

Always Be Owned, Don't be Beautiful.