Quotes About Identity

It would be hard to say what my life would be like unattached to this particular experience.

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

Thug Life to me is dead.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

The purpose of your existence is yours alone to discover.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

I have lost and loved, won and cried, all to become the person I am today.

Life is about finding out who you are while enjoying the journey to get there.

The only thing that belongs to us is our LIFE.

Sometimes it's not the people who change,it's the mask that falls off.

Be yourself. There is no need to impress others by pretending to be who you are NOT but STRIVE to be a better person.