Quotes About Identity

If you believe you cannot live without a certain person or that your entire existence depends on somebody else, you are setting yourself up to be hurt by that misbelief. If

Three steps to becoming the happy person you were meant to be are: Locate your misbeliefs. (Jerry realized that he was telling himself lies.) Remove them. (He argued against them. "I am not lonely!") Replace misbeliefs with the truth. ("It's nonsense to say I'm unlovable and useless. I'm loved with an everlasting love by the God of the universe. In Him, I have countless talents and uses and I am infinitely valuable to Him.")

In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, it reads, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Shame is pride's cloak.

My mother bore me in the southern wild,And I am black, but O! my soul is white;White as an angel is the English child,But I am black as if bereav'd of light.

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?

To every sweetheart he (Casanova) gave himself exclusively; he had so many selves.

They lived autobiographies

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

Wise leaders, understanding that example is the most powerful tool they can employ, start with themselves: "What part of my identity—of the way I come across, and even the way I experience myself—do I need to let go of if we are going to enter the Path of Renewal?

One of the most difficult aspects of the neutral zone is that most people don't understand it. They expect to be able to move straight from the old to the new. But this isn't a trip from one side of the street to the other. It's a journey from one identity to another, and that kind of journey takes time.

Even though there is a new situation in place and they have started to grapple with it, people are still in the neutral zone, feeling lost, confused, and uncertain. The beginning will take place only after they have come through the wilderness and are ready to make the emotional commitment to do things the new way and see themselves as new people. Starts involve new situations. Beginnings involve new understandings, new values, new attitudes, and—most of all—new identities.

They were the Land people. We were the sea people.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

But if you don't have the name of a thing, it is still the thing.

At death this fixed self-identity

Even when the poet seems most himself… he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Who can tell the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.