Identity Quotes

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Giving

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• Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Who We Are, Impossible, True Happiness

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  Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Effort, Inspire

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

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• All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.

  Pablo Neruda

  Integrity, Character, Angel

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.

  Laozi

  Time, Practice, Giving

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Judging, Excuse

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• My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Race, Might

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

  Alan Rudolph

  Moments, Fragile Things, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

  Julie Delpy

  Relationship, Romantic, Single

  "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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• We boil at different degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Anger, Being Different

  'Society and Solitude' (1870) 'Eloquence'

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• Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Karma, Respect

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 177

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• A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Integrity, Responsibility, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.66, Modern Library

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• We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Needs

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• The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doors, Understanding, Energy

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• The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!

  Ezra Pound

  Real, Meditation, Trying

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• Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Blessed, Priorities, Honor

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• Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence. You will become a child again, reborn.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Names, Personality

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• You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

  Fernando Flores

  Design, Risk, Able

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• Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Personality, Important, Individual

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• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Speech

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