Quotes About Identity

Remember whose you are and whom you serve. Encourage yourself to remember, and your affection for God will increase tenfold.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

Never consider whether or not you are of use—but always consider that "you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19). You are His.

Be marked and identified with God's nature, and His blessing will flow through you all the time.

Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.

Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation. Their emotions and thoughts, their egos, that "something" within them, all are transformed: they have become historical.

The man makes History, the woman is History.

Der Farbige durchschaut den Weißen, wenn er von "Menschheit" und ewigem Frieden redet. Er wittert die Unfähigkeit und den fehlenden Willen, sich zu verteidigen.

Grinberg (1983), in exploring the analyst's professional identity, stresses a particular kind of curiosity regarding the mind and psychic reality, a curiosity that extends to the analyst's own psychic functioning; Grinberg

superego also makes a crucial contribution to the analyst's identity. Superimposed

short, I am suggesting that the superego aspects of a psychoanalytic identity are reflected not only in moral integrity (in a moral as opposed to a moralistic stance vis-a-vis the patient) but also in resilience to the corruptive or regressive pressures operating upon the superego within the social and cultural system. I now turn

He wondered why nothing was ever like you thought it would be and then he realized it was because you never thought this would be you. She

Do you know why I have so patiently translated Poe? Because he resembled me. The first time I opened one of his books, I saw with terror and rapture subjects dreamed by me and described by him, twenty years earlier. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

A man's real nature is never altered by education.

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworthiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and the God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindberg

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own

I am Actaeon: recognize your master!

Perhaps the Irish are so rich in the voice because twas the only thing the English could not take from them. It is why the Welsh sing.

I ain't sure whether you're crazy or not," said he to the man in the lookin-glass. "I ain't never been sure.

Apart from Tony Iommi – who I'd never seen again since leaving school – I didn't even know anyone who could play a musical instrument. So, instead, I decided to grow my hair long and get some tattoos. At least I'd look the part. The hair was easy. The tattoos stung like a f**king bastard.