Quotes About Identity

When Tatiana had been a child in Luga, her beloved Deda, seeing her depressed one summer and unable to find her way, said to her, 'Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask, what do you love?

We're moving cities, we're changing our name just like this hotel. You call that all right?" "Yes," she said. "We still have each other. We still have our lives." "How the definition of being all right changes," said Alexander.

Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.

No. You didn't start with me. I came to you because you already had yourself

Hello, Tatiana. I'm Alexander. Have we met before?

Father continues to make the vulgar error," she said, "that to a woman, love is her whole existence.

When you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important, ask yourself, what do you love? And when you answer, Tatiana, you will know who you are. And more important - if you ask this question of the people around you, you will know who they are too.

Breathing in Shepelevo was like hitting the right note on the piano. There was only one note. When I was young, Shepelevo was the smell of nettles, of salted smoked fish, of fresh water from the Gulf of Finland, and of burning firewood, all wrapped up in one Shepelevo.

I walked into my dream and kept walking with my Leningrad in front of me and behind me and all around me. I wasn't carrying Russia with me. It was carrying me.

Ti dicono lui è mio e tu dici va bene, va bene, è tuo, certo, prendilo, niente è importante per me. Né me stessa, né il mio pane, né la mia vita, e neanche lui. Io combatto per niente.

That's why no one has abandoned London. They are all fragments of a city. They're part of something, they belong to something whole. If they leave, pieces will go missing.

We will call him Anthony Alexander Barrington. After my father and brother. We'll call him Alexander.

We're not nomads, we're not gypsies! We have a home!

Aunque mucho perdimos, mucho queda. Y aunque ya no tenemos aquel vigor capaz de mover los cielos y la tierra, seguimos siendo lo que somos... Indoblegables.

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors.

The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not "marginals," are not people living "outside" society. They have always been "inside"—inside the structure which made them "beings for others." The solution is not to "integrate" them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become "beings for themselves.