Quotes About Identity

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.