Quotes About Identity

I didn't know that love is not about what we do, but who we are, convincing others of our love for them...and about who loves us.

Eventually, her designed genetic material will be implanted into my egg, which first would have had my genetic material removed. Then my mother could become my baby. And someday, when I get old, I can become her baby. Then she will be mine, and I will be hers.

We are not so much defined by the wars we fight across the globe, but by the wars we have fought within ourselves as a nation.

I wish," she continued, turning back to herself, "that there was a path of words I could walk down and they would lead me into a grotto pool where I could re-purify myself and return to the girl I was. But there isn't a path, or even a girl. She's gone, and I'm stuck trying to invent who I want to be, and I'm finding that figuring out who I want to be is so much harder than just being who I was when I was a little kid.

The house is a bit of a monster, and slowly you belong to it and begin to function in it like living furniture that gets rearranged—you become another gear inside the machine of the house, or a hand puppet to your parents. You won't find freedom until you find yourself in a place that doesn't own you.

Do you think I'm weird because I'm wired, or wired because I'm wierd?

who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

I keep trying to feel who I was, and cannot. — Jack Gilbert, from "Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina," Collected Poems (Knopf, 2012)

Barry Manilow didn't write the song he sings called I Write the Songs.

Cuando la lógica que fija la forma corporal a la práctica social desaparece, cuando las narrativas de sexo, género y corporalidad se relajan y se vuelven menos fijas en relación con la verdad, la autenticidad, la originalidad y la identidad, tenemos el espacio y el tiempo para imaginarnos los cuerpos de otra manera.

You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today.

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

Not me, girl dear, not me in the whole wide world. You need a man…I'm just a corpse walking.

This is a declaration of war on the human body. And when a man declares war on himself, the first casualty is woman. It is a war that is still being fought.

To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify with them. A

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to live out

Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.

sorrow or a wound can heal, allowing us to grow into our fullest, most compassionate identity, our greatness of heart. When we truly come to terms with sorrow, a great and unshakable joy is born in our heart. HEALING

No matter what the world around you wants, there is only one person you can be true to, and that is yourself.

A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check. The teller asks him to please identify himself. Nasrudin reaches in his pocket and pulls out a small mirror. Looking into it, he says, "Yep, that's me all right." Meditation

Through awareness of the body, we remember who we truly are.

we give so much attention to our protective layers of fear, depression, confusion, and aggression that we forget who we really are.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.