Identity Quotes - Page 23

• In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherewithal to shift course, to deconstruct your painfully achieved identity, risking failure, marginalization and loss of collective approval?' No small task.

  James Hollis

  Loss, Play, Soul

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• I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Two

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• The whole point about thinking brilliantly is about knowing your identity and the favor you have in Christ

  Graham Cooke

  Thinking, Knowing, Favors

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• Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for.

  Graham Cooke

  Want, Circumstances, Response

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Feb 04, 2014

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• As soon as you Botox your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

  Nigel Barker

  Your Smile, Botox, Lines

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• I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself.

  Eva Green

  Jobs, Stars, True Identity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

  Henry Rollins

  Different, Matter, Born

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• Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Progress, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2771, Delphi Classics

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• Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Government, Moral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.566, Library of America

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• I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Men, Humanity, Black

  "Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito Talks Current Projects, More; Directing Series On Slave Abolitionist John Brown". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.

  Suzi Quatro

  Country, Thinking, Australia

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• Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Angel, Destiny, Men

  Gai Eaton (1985). “Islam and the Destiny of Man”, p.60, SUNY Press

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• A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

  Shari Sebbens

  Aboriginal, Persons, About Family

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• I once knew it. I only hope that I can regain my own identity, once I decide that Perry Mason and myself have come to the parting of the road. Perry Mason has become a career for me . . . all I know is that I work, eat and sleep Perry Mason.

  Raymond Burr

  Sleep, Careers, Masons

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

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• I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Problem

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• When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Mom, Growing Up, Mexican

  "Dinaw Mengestu on 'All Our Names'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Diversity, India

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

  John Banville

  Individuality, Looks, Imagine

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• The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

  Abraham Maslow

  Loss, Discovery, Firsts

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders. This is a very real issue. It's not funny, it's sad. Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle-we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say this is gay. It's anything but gay.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Gay, Thinking

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• The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

  Amin Maalouf

  Christian, Mother, Islam

  Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.16, Arcade Publishing

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• You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Mean, Mexican

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• As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

  Kenneth Koch

  Mean, Looks, May

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• Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

  Bill Viola

  Rocks, Tree, Feelings

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