Quotes About Identity

We become what we celebrate. What are you celebrating?

But science cannot provide deeply personal answers to your deeply personal questions. It cannot answer those four questions we identified earlier: Who are you? What are you here for? What matters most? What matters least?

we became the books we read.

He took an interest in who I was and who I wanted to become.

Your essential purpose is to become the-best-version-of-yourself. Plant that one idea at the center of your life. Base every decision upon your essential purpose. Make every choice with your essential purpose in mind. Place this one idea at the center of your inner dialogue and you will very quickly understand why ideas change the world. Everything makes sense in relation to our essential purpose, especially relationships.

Loneliness, or solitude, or perhaps both, teach us who we are deep down beyond the influences of parents, teachers, friends, and current culture. Loneliness and solitude teach us what is really important and what is trivial nonsense. Loneliness is a form of hunger, and hunger is good for us. Loneliness and solitude teach us gratitude. Yes, there are differences between the two, but they intermingle and often it is impossible to separate them.

I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.

Everywhere he had traveled he found that Americans "have their sectional loves and hatreds, but before the dear name of Washington they are all absorbed and forgotten

que aun cuando muchos se llaman cristianos, no saben lo que es un cristiano, o si lo saben, aún no saben lo que implica ser un cristiano.

It's pretty amazing being me.

Once you're famous you can't go back.

Why did nature not ask my advice about my features?

When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.

At some point within the first month I started talking to myself, which wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that I was also answering myself. I'd never imagined how crucial English was to my sense of a unified self—part

Yo. Salt-and-Pepper. The name is Go-Go or Mr Go-Go, okay?

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

His mom calls him Berger?

Who the fuck is Old Jolene?

You knew—who knew not Astrophil?

Scars are the key to power. Scars are the map of beauty... Each of us is the sum of our scars.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

every herb and poison ultimately has a primal essence or identity pattern and this, whether delivered in a gentle or a toxic envelope, possesses curative power.

Buddhism therefore concludes that the self is just a name we give to a continuum, just as we name a river the Ganges or the Mississippi.

these days, we are constantly dealing with strangers who know nothing of our identity, qualities and defects, so it is tempting, and sometimes useful, to broadcast as ostentatiously as possible the image of ourselves that we would like to see recognized by those around us.