Quotes About Identity

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!

It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said. "Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family." "But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

I like to listen to music that makes me feel a certain way—either it reminds me of something important that happened or a certain time in my life

Whatever there is about human identity that can be objectively known, measured, predicted, observed, whether by the Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram, the tax man, or the omniscient squint of your most insightful aunt, there is a foundational core of what we might as well call identity that remains hidden from scrutiny's grip and somehow utterly caught up in God, "in whom we live and move and have our being," in whom our very self is immersed.

the more we realize we are one with God the more we become ourselves, just as we are, just as we were created to be.

When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.

for all the valuable insights big data provides, the Web remains a curated, idealized version of who we really are.

As LEGO found out more than a decade ago, the question "What are you most proud of?" can yield surprising and transformative answers.

how and in what ways, do various cultures show off their flags? In contrast to Swedes, who almost never display their national colors, Norwegians and Canadians generally sport a flag decal on their backpacks, the latter making sure the rest of the world doesn't mistake them for Americans.)

We are afraid, for example, of letting others know more about us than we know about ourselves, fearing most of all that our masks will slip, and will lose control, letting others see us as we truly are.

The brands we like, and buy, and surround ourselves with—and by now you know I define a "brand" as anything from the music on our playlists to our shoes, to our sheets, to our toothpaste, to the artwork hanging on our walls—have the profoundest possible things to say about who we are.

If most of the time they do and feel and think and watch and eat and drink precisely what everyone else does, are Americans really free? There

men and women have two ages: a chronological age, and an emotional age they feel inside. (I'll explore this subject in more detail in a later chapter.) Men typically conceal evidence of their younger selves in drawers, or buried inside online folders, whereas women are less embarrassed about publicly showcasing their younger selves, and express it openly

State, nation, and citizen are three essentially modern concepts and non of them easily fits the British experience.

State, nation, and citizen are three essentially modern concepts and none of them easily fits the British experience.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.