Quotes About Identity

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved, when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

We become that which we love.

The best love is the one that makes you a better person, without changing you into someone other than yourself.

There's no need to try and fit in. If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change. Be yourself, and someone will come into your life one day, not caring what other people think of you. They'll love you for who you are, not the person everyone else wants you to be.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

You don't have to change who you are to impress me, I love you just the way you are.

No matter how many times you may spray paint , change wheels , clean , or customize a car to look different . ÃÂ It will always be the same. Same goes for people. Our appearances , actions and age may change .. But we will always be the same

I am not a tool , so don't treat me as if I am one

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something....

If you're going to survive in this world, here's what you need to know: you are who you are, not what people think you are.

Under oath and with God and the media as my witness, I'm telling you that I am Daredevil. Always have been, always will be.

You defined yourself by participating in other people's lives.

Under Saddam Hussein, speaking Kurdish was against the law, which effectively made it a dying language - like a dialect of Native American Cherokee, it didn't have much use outside of the tribe. By speaking it, it seemed I was touching the very soul of every man and woman in the room, and they weren't shy about telling me how much it meant to them.

From "I Exist" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. His mother thought he was a loser His father thought he was a bum Plenty of times he felt like running But he really had nowhere to run He fought it with everything he had With his brains and with his fists And whenever anyone told him he was nobody He'd tell himself "I exist

From "Rock Star" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. What happens to a rock star When he gets too old to perform When his public has faded Like the strength his voice once had? What happens to a rock star When he's treated like yesterday's news And the only reviews that he gets are ones that are bad?

What's become of my life? Why do I feel so burned out? I should be happy. I used to be happy. Where did it all go?

But what if there is nothing "wrong" with you at all?

It's hell when the person you know you are isn't the person people see when they look at you.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?