Quotes About Identity

Don't be afraid to be who you are because you are the only person who knows you best.

No one determines your truth but you.You can't paint your own self-portrait with someone else's hand.

Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

Who are you not to be yourself?

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

I'm not a puzzle piece to someone else's puzzle, I'm my own puzzle that is still growing. I'm unsure of what it'll look like when it's done, but it will be uniquely me.

The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you.

The best part of traveling is finding yourself.

My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.

I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

I don't give my weight. I weigh a hundred and plenty.

Don't get hooked on taking identity in illness and diagnosis, there is only a body in balance or a body out of balance. Get your body balanced.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Covenants with God help us to know who we really are.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.