625 quotes found
“I am the other.”
“There is this question of otherness.So just as it is blood alone that binds people to defend one another in the face of danger, on the spiritual plane one person will struggle to help another only ...”
“Until you have answered the question Who am I you will not be capable of living your own life”
“The question who am I is the first question that every person should ask himself”
“If you dont know who you are, you will be someone else”
“If we dont know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others”
“Who am I? What is my identity?I am a human being who doesnt want to be identified as an Asian or as an American. I am not brown nor Desi. I want to be identified as a human being who is here to hel...”
“Ella finds this story inside herself: A woman, loved by a man who criticizes her throughout their long relationship for being unfaithful to him and for longing for the social life which his jealous...”
“Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be ...”
“To know your purpose, you have to find yourself”
“I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in ones bones.”
“It was the only act of rebellion I knewto be worthy of such an insult as butterfly.”
“There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.”
“Before operating on a patient's brain, I realized, I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that...”
“But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it most...”
“We are always in the process of becoming. Self-identity is a fusion of our prior decisions and our current thoughts.”
“She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.”
“This anti-description, for want of a better way of putting it, had made something clear to her by a reverse kind of exposition: while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with...”
“She scraped her spoon around the bottom of the honey jar. She was aware, she said, that this was also a cultural malaise, but it had invaded her inner world to the extent that she felt herself summ...”
“I would like, she resumed, to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have no idea how to achieve this, other than by going somewhere completely unknown where I have no identi...”
