Quotes About Identity

When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

We are ourselves our happiness.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.