Quotes About Identity

A legitimate government does not lose face easily, but an insecure government with little in the way of indigenous roots takes its image very seriously.

The thing is, if you're an ugly goon when you're 15, you're an ugly goon for the rest of your life — until the day you die. You're always a goon, even if lots of years go by, even if you get married and have a kid, even if you're more successful than you ever thought you'd be in your wildest dreams. You're still that same goon who everybody laughed at. It never changes.

When our identities are tethered to externals, our sense of self-worth is always in danger. In the end, we become hypersensitive, insecure, and discontent, always comparing ourselves to the next parent, the next young professional, the next pastor across town. But

If you aren't free of yourself how will you ever become yourself?

Keep up self-definition and you'll never be apparent.

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception…

When I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. When my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep; so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

As a result, Italians who today bear illustrious noble names are not necessarily the progeny of nobility but may be instead the descendants of poor Jews who sought a new life by passing through the doors of the Catechumens. Of

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

This attitude of judging each other by our "jobs" is to ignore and deny who we really are.

We fear being alone if we express our uniqueness because we lack self esteem and inner security.

You have inner emotional turmoil because you are suppressing who you really are and submitting, through fear, to another's design; and/or you are seething with anger and resentment with people who won't live their lives as you believe they should.

The extraterrestrials who are dubbed "aliens" are actually other aspects of ourselves. They are not "alien" at all. They are part of us.

The child was born in the Arab world, and in that sense, Roger and Alice had gone into the land itself, been penetrated by it, bled into its veins (p. 349).

name's Ma Daiyu. I'm sure she's heard

I didn't give you this life, honey. They took to you because of who you are. You gave yourself this life.

As a prominent African American, Chicago-based theologian who worshiped in the same church later emphasized, above all else, including color, complexion, and race, first and foremost Barack "Obama is Hawaiian.

Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film - another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is *never* satiated. And when someone is fully consumed - vampirized - they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers. ("Red Light")

The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

The Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit has suggested that the important thing is not a person's identity but his or her identifications. Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life

Deep inside of us we all know there is someone we were meant to be.

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. You don't know me at all.