True Identity Quotes

• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Life, Wisdom

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.

  Shriram Sharma

  God, Reality, Essence

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

  Aristotle

  Hero, Tragedy, Faces

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• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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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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• Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Reality, Unity, Awareness

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.138, Anchor

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• There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational, Life, Acceptance

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Believe, Creative, Kind

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• I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Character, Eye, Men

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• Looks can’t hide your true identity. It’s the eyes that give you away…the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows.

  Vicki Pettersson

  Eye, Giving, Soul

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• When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

  Craig Groeschel

  Miracle, Never Settle, Facts

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• Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

  Thomas Merton

  Memories, Past, Firsts

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Insecurity, Want, Energy

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• I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Believe, Play, Ego

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• Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Prayer, Focus, Fervent

  Priscilla Shirer (2015). “Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer”, p.57, B&H Publishing Group

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• All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Identity, Discomfort, Suppressing

  "Why You Aren’t Who You’re Supposed to Be" by Matthew B. James, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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• The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Religious, Peace, Ubuntu

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