Quotes About Identity

I wish I believed in something, Madison thought. I wish I belonged somewhere.

It's not just the real, but the perspective of real that counts. If people perceive you as weak, then you are weak, even if it's a survival strategy.

Ask them. But you're not a soldier, I'm not sure what you are, but you're not that.

Your business? Which is?" "

Just remember who you are. The world will try to change you.into someone else. Don't let them. Theat's the bst advice anyone can give you.

Just remember who you are. The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you." Nick Snowbeard

And so... a year later... I am back where I started. Contemplating a forced marriage between us.' She looked up at Micah, blinking away tears. "Turning my back on my clan heritage." Micah had the grace to look uncomfortable. 'I wish it were otherwise. I wish that you loved me.

While the opinions of others may drag us down, the God who created us has an entirely different opinion of who we are.

Aku boleh saja dianggap tukang bercinta, tetapi aku bukanlah pembunuh seorang gadis remaja.

Sebagai sahabat yang lebih tua, Amerika bisa memberi kami nasihat. Tetapi jangan mencampuri urusan kami. Kami telah melihat pelaksanaan kapitalisme dan demokrasi Barat melalui bangsa Belanda. Kami tidak ingin menerapkan sistem itu. Biarkan kami berkembang dengan satu metode baru yang sesuai dengan kepribadian kami. Itu bukanlah sesuatu yang bisa diekspor, tetapu sebaliknya kami juga tidak akan mengimpor doktrin-doktrin yang tidak sesuai untuk kami.

Dibanding dengan wilayah kepulauan kami, Irian Barat hanya selebar daun kelor, tetapi Irian Barat adalah sebagian dari tubuh kami. Apakah seseorang akan membiarkan salah satu anggota tubuhnya diamoutasi tanpa melakukan perlawanan? Apakah seseorang tidak akan berteriak kesakitan apabila ujung jarinya dipotong?

Kita harus melepaskan diri dari pengaruh-pengaruh yang membelenggu kita pada masa lalu yang memalukan, seperti para pelayan, jongos, dan orang desa yang tidak punya nama dan tidak punya wajah.

Nasionalisme tidak dapat hidup subur, kalau tidak hidup dalan taman sarinya Internasionalisme.

Seorang komunis menginginkan dunia yang terdiri dari satu bangsa. Mereka menghapuskan nasionalisme untuk kepentingan internasionalisme.

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

Here's the deal. I get to marry you. You get to become a Garrett - although, considering what you're marrying into, I'm not certain that's much of an incentive." Dallas to Amy

We are who are, Memory Thibodeaux," he said. "Because of who we've been.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

I am demonized because I don't see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person's heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises. . . Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years.

Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen.

On the mantelpiece, the photograph of a chimpanzee and a statuette of the Buddha. This proximity, more accidental than intentional, makes me wonder over and over where my place might be between these two extrems, man's pre and transfiguration.

There certainly has remained with me the feeling that my identity is entirely illusory, and that by losing it, I have lost nothing, except something, except everything.

Todos los hombres tienen que destruir su vida. Y según la manera como lo hagan se llamarán triunfadores o fracasados.