Identity Quotes - Page 29

• The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

  Matthew McConaughey

  Who I Am, Firsts, Steps

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• Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

  Tony Robbins

  Incredibles, Invisible, Gravity

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• American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Attitude, Jew, Bits

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• Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Views, Doubt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Play, Car, Decision

  "A New Way To Talk About Eating Animals". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. November 3, 2009.

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• As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.

  Augustus Napier

  Loyalty, Children, Father

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• Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

  Augustus Napier

  Children, Struggle, May

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• This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for itto change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

  Augustus Napier

  Men, Parent, Style

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• Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

  Toni Morrison

  Cities, Numbers, Giving

  "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature". "Michigan Quarterly Review", Volume 28, No. 1, Winter 1989.

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• Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Self Esteem, Criticism, Threat

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• I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Agency, Kind

  "Watch Rachel Dolezal’s Long, Unbelievably Incoherent". Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry, www.nationalreview.com. June 17, 2015.

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• The science of yoga saved my life, and I've seen it save many other lives, no matter how dark and hopeless it might feel for someone, there is a pathway forward towards stability and empowerment ... toward creating a new and more meaningful identity and mission in life.

  Brad Willis

  Life, Meaningful, Yoga

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• We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

  Michel Foucault

  Helping Others, Two, Fusion

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.208, Routledge

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• A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Civilization, Roots

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• Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Rights, Desire, Development

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• Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Struggle, Self, Expression

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• History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Mistake, Facts

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Break Through, People

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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• You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way to explore your own identity and make something of it.

  Amber Heard

  Beautiful, Sexy, Years

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

  Guillermo del Toro

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Reality, Essence

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego.

  Ali Sina

  Ignorance, Self, Ego

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is Islam. That is why Islam for Muslims is more than just a religion. It is their identity. When you criticize Islam, they perceive it as an attack on their identity and cringe with pain. They take that not only as an insult but also as an assault on their person. Like a corned animal they become vicious and fight back with all their might - a fight of survival. That is why you see such a violent reaction to a few silly cartoons.

  Ali Sina

  Pain, Silly, Taken

  Source: myislam.dk

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• My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

  Andrew Skurka

  Pride, Needs, Want

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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