625 quotes found
“The world will lose something if you do not find yourself, if you do not answer the question Who am I”
“A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.”
“Our identity in the world is like a wave from the Ocean.”
“People love their causes they champion; they love their divisions and neatly packaged boxes of identity; for without them, they would be forced to look within, find themselves, set aside pettiness ...”
“What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?”
“We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.”
“We script our own psyche. We each journey alone. The path that we take through life proves to be every persons supreme test of mental, physical, and emotional stamina, and the final determiner of h...”
“Creating Identity”
“I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.”
“No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.”
“National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.”
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
“You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary a...”
“Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.”
“Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about...”
“I had imagined myself into existence. I wrote because of an inner need,and that need was to create a clearer vision of myself, and in writing I became what I wrote.”
“There was a duplication of myself involved, perhaps even a triplication.There was I who was writing. There was I whom I could remember. And there was I of whom I wrote, the protagonist of the story.”
“I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.”
“No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence”
“There is a real joy in being truer version of yourself.”
