Quotes About Identity

He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum

The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths.

She runs in my blood and beats in my heart; she is part of me, always, so I don't have to picture her to remember her.

There is a phrase for this that has become quite common: "I'm spiritual but not religious." Polls show that some 20 percent of Americans identify overall with that phrase. And some polls have shown that, in the younger generation—those between eighteen and twenty-nine—this percentage explodes to an astonishing 75 percent!2 In other words, three out of four young individuals have a deep spiritual yearning that no existing religion is addressing.

Your "overall self" is your True Self (or Witness) plus your conventional, relative, finite self, and that finite self can be a false (inaccurate) or an authentic (accurate) self-concept. The choice is truly yours…

BELL HOOKS: "I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. I think the worst thing that can happen to us is to lose sight of the power of empathy and compassion." MAYA

In this regard, the pure Ego or pure Self is virtually identical with what the Hindus call Atman (or the pure Witness that itself is never witnessed—is never an object—but contains all objects in itself).

we saw self-identity, needs, and moral response go from physiocentric to biocentric to egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, the platform for all higher and truly spiritual developments.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.

How could they possibly be Japanese planes?

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

Man made God in his own image.

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.