Quotes About Identity

Life is full of attachments, so being single is a state of inadvertent denial.

When girls complain about being single...I tell them to just be plural.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

What a person does while single shouldn't define who they are in a relationship.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Single, taken, in a relationship; are all just terms. Your status is measured by your actions.

Live life to the fullest, who knows what we are all missing out of, the smallest things are important too, but the biggest things are what we pay attention to, don't forget who you are in life or what you want to become.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Despite the man's intimidating mountain-man looks, Wallace dated men, women and some people who seemed to skate between genders.

And judging by what she'd been saying when he walked in, she was also fond of penises. He really couldn't overlook such an important aspect of her personality.

Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.

Sometimes the mind is cruel: it tells us we are worth no more than our possessions, and that without them we would be nothing. And when we believe it, perhaps it is true.

He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

I'd sacrificed my sense of self in the hope that somehow it would pay off,

To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

But you know you don't have to mirror that attitude, right? I mean, wouldn't it be better to be your own dazzling portrait rather than someone else's reflection

Those jeans're so tight I can see your religion

Besides," Dara said, "he didn't see me the way other people did.

For coffee-stained girls in libraries.

The boy in this mirror was steel and frost and a bloodied knife. And he wasn't afraid of anything.

Our history is written in the bones of our ancestors. They are the keepers of our stories, our traditions, our identity. And when we disturb their resting place, we disturb the very foundation of who we are." (Kneubuhl 44)