Quotes About Identity

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Revelation WE make ourselves a place apart Behind light words that tease and flout, But oh, the agitated heart Till someone find us really out. 'Tis pity if the case require (Or so we say) that in the end We speak the literal to inspire The understanding of a friend. But so with all, from babes that play At hide-and-seek to God afar, So all who hide too well away Must speak and tell us where they are

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

A man must partly give up being a man With women-folk.

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are

Something was withheld . . . We found it was ourselves.

Who would you be, I wonder, by those marks If I had moths to friend as I have flowers?

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. What do you do?.

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

Revisiting the music of one's youth is part of the reunion with self. Whatever your parents may have thought of the music, however the music may survive the test of time, if it was the music you listened to in high school or college days, then it plays forever in some ballroom of your mind. You can still mouth the words and do the dances.

The shift of self-perception is the most powerful ingredient in the chain reaction of becoming the person you are always becoming.

We are as different from one another on the inside of our heads as we appear to be different from one another on the outside of our heads.

Even now I carry my voter-registration card in my wallet—reminding me of both my privileges and my obligations as an adult citizen in a free country. The card tells me much more than just the location of my voting booth. It's one of the most powerful talismans of my identity—even more important than a driver's license. Anybody can drive a car.

Become who you are by learning who you are.

Not to become someone else, but to be more thoroughly yourself.

Understand this: The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed. Your

What if we could find out what causes us to lie about who we are, or to inadvertently push people away?

Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

Your false self is the accumulation of all the voice you have internalized from other people-parents and friends who want you to conform to their ideas of what you should be like and what you should do, as well as societal pressures to adhere to certain values that can easily seduce you. It also includes the voice of your own ego, which constantly tries to protect you from from unflattering truths.

Do not be afraid to bring out the more sensitive or ambitious sides to your character. These repressed parts of you are yearning to be let out. In the theater of life, expand the roles that you play. Don't worry about people's reactions to any changes in you they sense. You are not so easy to categorize, which will fascinate them and give you the power to play with their perceptions of you, altering them at will.

The world wants to assign you a role in life and once you except that role you are doomed.