Quotes About Identity

The Truth is that you have no idea what you really are but you know what you are not

The quest to be right is about sekf-importance: we need to be right in order to accept ourselves; this is a condition we place on our sekf-acceotance and our acceptance of others. The quest for truth, on the other hand, is the desire to discover--regardless of whether our beliefs are supported in the process.

agreement around principles, goals and identity among the conquered is almost always hostile to the victor and carry the seeds of future rebellion.

Online, we still can't reliably establish one another's identities or trust one another to transact and exchange money without validation from a third party like a bank or a government. These same intermediaries collect our data and invade our privacy for commercial gain and national security. Even with

Online, we still can't reliably establish one another's identities or trust one another to transact and exchange money without validation from a third party like a bank or a government.

never figured out what sort of animal I was

You are asking me to give up my sword? -I am. -Then I shall be swordless. Think what that means.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

the truth is that most people buy a home because it uniquely reflects their personality and their values.

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.

Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they'd had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them.

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

It's true: if we live behind a mask we can impress but we can't connect.

I don't trust people to accept who I am in process. I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world—so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

How can we be loved if we are always in hiding?