Quotes About Identity

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.