Identity Quotes - Page 36

• It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Titles, Facts

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• [...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond permanently with a member of the opposite sex and (usually) establish a family. The main symptom of this disorder is the pursuit of impersonal sex for its own sake (i.e. promiscuity).

  Henry Makow

  Sex, Opposites, Confusion

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• When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."

  Ralph Lauren

  Home, Character, House

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• The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

  Alan Arkin

  Opportunity, Labels, Limits

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• The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Political, Voting, Citizens

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• Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

  Erich Fromm

  Integrity, Mean, Way

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.92, Lantern Books

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• Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

  Justin Simien

  World, Sometimes, Salvation

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious identity that is relevant to only a very small part of their lives, because the vast majority of their lives in the 21st century are going to be lived in interaction with others.

  Eboo Patel

  Christian, Religious, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me and that's how I knew myself. That's where I got a lot of my self worth. That began to shift and I started to understand that I didn't get my worth from people or from the things that I did. It was from Christ. If I hadn't had that shift in my life, I think my world would have come crumbling down.

  Kelly Clark

  Self Worth, Thinking, Snowboarding

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Self, America

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• When a lot of athletes get done playing, they end up in some really tough positions. They have a hard time transitioning because their identity is wrapped up in who they are as a player and what they do rather than who they can be in Christ. We desire to help people understand the invitation that God has given each one of us as Christ followers to be a part of this global redemptive story. If you can't give your life to something with meaning and purpose of that magnitude then there's nothing there.

  Aaron Kampman

  Athlete, Hard Times, Player

  "Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Aaron Kampman on his faith, his recent trip to El Salvador and the NFL lockout". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.

  Nikki Sanderson

  People, Ironic, Pages

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

  Ben Zobrist

  Games, Statistics, Difficult

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Broke up created a crisis...in every circumstance because a family gets blown apart. We all know what that does to a child. We all know what that does to a woman's identity. But, at the same time, it caused me to start to reevaluate all those things weren't able to stay intact - all the people's attention, all the success, the financial security. It didn't have any value.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Children, People, Able

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity and most Muslims when they talk about wanting Sharia to play a role in their lives really mean it in so far as it talks about family law, you know, issues like, as I said marriage, divorce.

  Mark Durie

  Mean, Divorce, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• There was a time - when I attained inner peace - when I died, utterly died to myself. I have since renounced my previous identity. I can see not reason to dwell upon my past, it is dead and should not be resurrected. Don't inquire of me - ask me about my message. It is not important to remember the messenger, just remember the message.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Past, Inner Peace, Important

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• Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary.  Your true identity has remained untouched.  You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mistake, True Identity, Way

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End”, p.141, Random House

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• Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Order, Giving

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.25, Penguin

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• We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Kings, Hate, May

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.2402, Delphi Classics

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• The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Migration, Groups, Culture

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• It is important that the female develops a reality that honors and nurtures her femininity and has an identity and creativity of her own.  It is equally important that the male in the relationship endorses that creativity.

  Stuart Wilde

  Creativity, Reality, Honor

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• I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

  Jason Mraz

  Acceptance, Mirrors, Who I Am

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• The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.

  David Hawkins

  Pet, Friendly, Body

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• We are neither this way nor that; we are a body which is in the midst of change and evaporating.  We are timeless, thousands of years old, and involved with processes which go beyond our present identity.  This gives us an eternal feeling, but one which is realizable right here in the moment.

  Arnold Mindell

  Years, Giving, Feelings

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