Quotes About Identity

The problem with the force of tribalism is that, it survives only when you're with your relatives but subsides when you start counting your personal friends. It's a nonsensical, subjective fundamental force, thus why it exists nowhere in physics.

I don't really see myself as famous.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

life divides us into smaller and smaller pieces as we go, until each piece seems too small to do anything as worthwhile with it as we'd like

Miriam came to consider Eliza a gosling born into a family of ducks, loved and accepted, but always and forever a goose.

Nunca le permitas a nadie que te haga pensar de ti mismo como que eres alguien ordinario. Si alguien te hace sentir menos de lo que eres, sólo tienes que ver en el espejo y decir, "Tú eres alguien completamente original". Tú eres una persona única, irremplazable, original.

Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.

We should always keep our behavior or performance separate from our sense of self-worth.

We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.

We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.

The picture that we have of ourselves—our self-concept—will always determine how we respond to life.

Men therefore need a God-given identity if they are to fulfill their true purpose. We must learn what God originally intended for them. To do this, we must go back and rediscover the Creator's original plan for both men and women.

Define their worth based on God's purpose, rather than society's roles. Learn God's vision for their lives. Continue to live in the truth of who they were created to be.

Males and females are in a state of gender upheaval and confusion.

Once more, we must realize that when men are ignorant of their true identity, it affects not only their own callings and fulfillment, but also that of their families and of society as a whole. This is because God has given males a unique leadership influence. As the man goes, so goes the family, society, and the world.

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.

So that's why he came to Memphis—"to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black. I come to state that I'm a man, free to think for myself and do as I please.… I will not be consigned the unquestioned opinions of others.

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

When the wild herds were destroyed, so too was the will of the Kiowa people; there was nothing to sustain them in spirit.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. By means of words can a man deal with the world on equal terms. And the word is sacred. A man's name is his own; he can keep it or give it away as he likes.

I am Tsoai-talee, Rock Tree Boy, and I will carry that name to the end of the world and beyond. I will keep to the trees and waters, and I will be the singing of the soil. In my truest being I am a keeper of the earth. I will tell the ancient stories and I will sing the holy songs. I belong to the land.

Many people think that being Christian makes you sort of subhuman or, at least, less than fully human. Guys out there on the street (people think) are having a wonderful time enjoying human life to the fullest, and we in the church are sort of cramped and constricted. Well, things shouldn't be that way. Being a Christian is supposed to make you more truly human , more fully yourself. That means that you are supposed to become somebody who is reflecting the image of God.

The boys had seized the cave, and in it they'd found a home away from Welton, away from parents, teachers, and friends—a place where they could be people they never dreamed they'd be. The Dead Poets Society was alive and thriving and ready to seize the day.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.