Identity Quotes - Page 15

• We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

  Andre Gide

  Order, Ideas, Firsts

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• In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

  Barbara Hurd

  Letting Go, Dream, Home

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Inspiring, Years, Ideas

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• Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, Numbness, People

  "Girlfriend in a Coma". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1998.

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• If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The voice you loved to hear, you will hear again. The identity of the one you were near to on Earth remains the same, and instant recognition will be yours as you meet, never to part again. Your beloved one is only lost awhile.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Heart, Dear Ones, Voice

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• It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Team, Games

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I got Twitter identity theft.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Identity Theft, Theft

  "Q&A: Elizabeth Banks Is Every Woman You Know". Interview with Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Chips, Happens

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Quests, Violence

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• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Struggle, True Identity

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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• Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

  Erica Jong

  Memories, Humanity, Crux

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.52, Penguin

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• There is no German identity without Auschwitz.

  Joachim Gauck

  Auschwitz

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• The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Giving, Environmental

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• I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

  Mary Pipher

  Thinking, Our Family, Knows

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• I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

  Vaclav Havel

  World, Tests, Dignity

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• To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Hands

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• Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.

  Mira Bartok

  Mother, Children, Book

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• For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Battle, Culture, Recognition

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• Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Sacrifice, Liberty, Principles

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1943). “The Menace of the Herd: Or Procrustes at Large”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.

  Terry Eagleton

  Jesus, Lying, Father

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• To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Mean, Lacking

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

  W. H. Auden

  Finding The One, People, Trying

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("One of the Family"), (p. 369), 1973.

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• The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

  Ruben Papian

  Self, Slavery, Faces

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.6

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• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Oneness, Diversity

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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