625 quotes found
“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”
“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”
“The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but act...”
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
“To struggle to do means to fail to see. Doing spontaneously is directly related to perceiving and realising the integrity of your individual identity and value. Doing follows conclusion. I am, ther...”
“It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.”
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is t...”
“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextingu...”
“Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.Now he begins to understand: because pain is a godhe has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakins death. But it is also a teacher, a...”
“Pain makes people who they are.”
“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”
“People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.”
“Each of us is the enactor of our personal saga; we create the phantom of the self. We are the principal character in our personal story, as well as witnesses and reactors to the storylines of other...”
“In our formative years, every person begins creating a self that can keep him or her company through later stages in life. It requires concentrated effort to create self-hood. The task of creating ...”
“The music we listen to may not define who we are. But its a damn good start.”
“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”
“Most people play the role that belongs to someone else”
“It is necessary to understand who you are”
“To know your purpose, you must identify yourself in the world and know who you are in the world”
“people around you are reflections of your own identity.”
