Quotes About Identity

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.

Worry about right and wrong wasn't a concept he embraced. Right and wrong were ephemerals; they changed from every angle, from hour to hour, depending on which side of any of a thousand borders a soldier was born.

Maybe that was why Anna admired people with passion. A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

To name a thing was to own, control and understand it.

For her the room turned cold, the colorful people surreal, as if normalcy was a gift others shared without her.

Anna'd been born female, she'd grown into a small woman and, in the past ten years, had slid into middle age. If ever there was a cloak of invisibility, time and circumstances were trying to weave her one.

Soon she was going to have to relinquish her self-image as a hermit.

Rogelio has a feminine side," Anna countered. "From what you've told me, Rogelio has a weak side. Not at all the same.

A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

Anna… envied Joan's deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she'd been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.

I AM THAT I AM. [Exodus 3:14]

Never claim, "I shall be that," Let all claims from now on be, "I AM that I AM.

By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person.

You never draw out of the deep of yourself that which you want; you always draw that which you are, and you are that which you feel yourself to be as well as that which you feel as true of others.

Orar, entonces, es reconocerse a sí mismo como lo que deseas ser en lugar de suplicar a Dios por aquello que deseas.

You will from time to time know yourself to be many things, but you need not be anything to know that you are.

Willingly identify yourself with that which you most desire, knowing that it will find expression through you. Yield to the feeling of the wish fulfilled and be consumed as its victim, then rise as the prophet of the law of assumption.

In short, man's conception of himself determines that which he sees his world to be.

Claim yourself to be your ideal, not as something that you will be in time, but as that which you are in the immediate present. Do this, and your present world of limitations will disintegrate as your new claim rises like the phoenix from its ashes.

There must be someone in this room who will so completely transform himself in this world that his close immediate circle of friends will not recognize him.

Encuentra a tu propio ser, nunca estés avergonzado por el ser que tú eres. Descúbrelo y comienza el cambio de ese ser.

ALL is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself cannot be realised by you.

The subconscious is what a man is. The conscious is what a man knows.