Quotes About Identity

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

I like how glasses suggest intelligence instead of broken eyes.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?

Me and Miz are one and the same. I share some of the qualities he has and I need to learn some things from him, but there's absolutely no jealousy here between the two of us.

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

You can't be yourself within jealousy.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves

Freedom is knowing who you really are.