Quotes About Identity

As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to know who you are — what others say is irrelevant.

It seems to fit. I feel comfortable in my own skin. I feel like I'm able to claim my own person. At least I'm making a start. I'm learning to stand on my own.

Having to be sober was like being a forty-year-old trapped in a young adult's body. How could I relate to any of my peers? It was like I'd come from a totally different planet.

I'm not some total invalid

As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are—what others say is irrelevant.

I wish to make a noise with my feet.I want my soul to find its proper body.

Aló, ¿con la Casa de la Cultura? - Sí conchetumadre.

YANKY GO HOME Pero llevame contigo YANKEE GO HOME But take me with you...

Si he de conceder crédito a lo dicho por la gente que trajo la noticia debo creer, sin vacilar un punto, que murió con mi nombre en las pupilas

there's a difference between doing something and being something, but they merge into each other. I mean, you play the piano a bit, and then more and more, and at some point you become a pianist. That's who you are.

Within families, you're stuck with the character they think you are, whatever you do. You become a war hero and all that your parents ever talk about is something supposedly funny you used to do when you were in nursery school.

You become like a ghost in your own life

No. This is stuff that is from the first half of the alphabet. But I'm not completely consistent. Sometimes I go by the first name and sometimes by the second, then forget which I've done.

Nobody tells you, when you're young, what it will be like." "What is it like?" "You become like a ghost in your own life.

He was forty-two, after all. This was just the age when men went off the rails, drank and bought motorbikes and had affairs, trying to be young again. But he didn't want a motorbike and he didn't want an affair. He didn't want to be young again. All that awkwardness and pain, that sense of being in the wrong life.

Bit by bit, we become people we don't want to be,

There are days when the younger self accuses you. Is this who you wanted to be? Is this the life you wanted to live? What had happened to the books she had dreamt of writing, the journeys she had planned to take, the person she had thought to become? What had happened to that quiet, stubborn, fierce girl who promised herself freedom and adventure and who thought she could do anything?

In the end you have to choose who you will become. You are your life's work. Every moment of every day makes you. Only at the end, when your story is over, do you know what you have created.

You're supposed to gain things as you grow older in return for the things that you lose. But what had she gained? Dignity? She hadn't got that. Peace? No. Wisdom? It seemed unlikely. And what had she lost? Beauty, youth, innocence, possibility. Your past grows longer and your future shrinks. And you lose your parents and your children – often at the same time so that you go from being daughter and mother to being neither. What are you then?

En jij? Jij bent de vreemde hier, je blijft hier komen omdat je niet weet waar je anders naartoe moet, dát is de realiteit, verdorie, eindelijk heb je het tegen jezelf gezegd.

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

At the core of all societies, I will show, is the social suite: (1) The capacity to have and recognize individual identity (2) Love for partners and offspring (3) Friendship (4) Social networks (5) Cooperation (6) Preference for one's own group (that is, "in-group bias") (7) Mild hierarchy (that is, relative egalitarianism) (8) Social learning and teaching

Seeing people only as members of groups is, he says, "inherently reductionist and dehumanizing, a collectivist and ideological abstraction of all that is original and creative in the human being, of all that has not been imposed by inheritance, geography, or social pressure." Real, personal identity, he argues, "springs from the capacity of human beings to resist these influences and counter them with free acts of their own invention." 5

except in one crucial particular. It wasn't London.