Quotes About Identity

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

You're a wizard, Harry.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you.

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.

You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.