Quotes About Identity

My home is not a place, it is people.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

Yes, yes, our countries are going to be friends, at last!' I didn't bother pointing out the minor detail that Obama wasn't my president. It didn't seem important. American, British, whatever. Great Satan, Little Satan, we had all been merged into one by the Islamic Republic's propaganda machine. No different from how Persians and Arabs are all one and the same in many western minds, I supposed.

The great and only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Khomeini and Khamenei were everywhere; on giant billboards at the roadside, as vast lurid murals on concrete apartment blocks and, less impressively, on sagging vinyl banners outside schools and mosques. With their almost identical appearance and surnames they reminded me of an Islamic Thomson and Thompson, the hapless detectives of the Tintin books. But that, I feared, was where the similarity ended.

I came to the conclusion that it was impossible to classify anyone in Iran, and herein lay its fascination.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Why do superheroes wear capes? His brother's voice. To show how cape-able they are? His own childhood voice.

Je suis un artiste, et mon Å"uvre, c'est Moi.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

He began with the profound assumption that because the true, unadulterated consciousness of each human is ultimately godhead, then godhead already is our true, natural, and essential identity. We don't need to climb anywhere. Each of us already is number One on the Tree of Life. All lower (sleepier) levels of consciousness with which we may currently identify are illusionary—dream selves that we temporarily misidentify as our Self.

Thus, within Linnaean terminology, a female characteristic (the lactating mamma) ties humans to brutes, while a traditionally male characteristic (reason) marks our separateness.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

I am. I was. I am not. I never am.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

I am my own heir.

Maravilla ser solía, pero ya lástima doy; que de extremo a extremo voy y desde ser a no ser, pues sol me llamaba ayer y hoy sombra mía aun no soy.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.

Tried to be someone I knew that I wasn't I thought I could make myself happy with you