625 quotes found
“Rosie had to keep her room neat enough so James would not freak out, but not so neat that they could figure it all out, break the code, of who you truly were, what you were up to, your values, your...”
“Maybe such questions bothered me so much because they are being asked about me, all the time, within the echo chamber of my own fallen psyche and by unseen rebel angels all around. Are you really a...”
“The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a fatalism in one's acceptance of it. Solitude is not the solution, one feels followed. Choice - ...”
“Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.”
“We are all nameless inside.”
“We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other - you know, and notice our identity”
“Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.”
“Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am.”
“You can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?”
“A Jew ain't only a religion, and it ain't a race. It isn't an ethnicity, and you aren't disqualified if you're good at spreading mayonnaise on white bread or bad at money or good at sports or bad a...”
“Because we are invited to be part of God's new creation now, we seek to embody the identity we have been given in Christ. . . . We engage in mission to establish friendships that lead to the format...”
“Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves”
“Memory is identity. I have believed this since oh, since I can remember. You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget yo...”
“Sometimes, I wonder .....Are we all as identical on our way out of the Earth...like the way we all came into it?If so, at what point do all our identities merge into a final whole?Are we all namele...”
“He cements his existence in an echo of time, but the journey demands him to change. He cannot see; his identity is a mask. Nothing in this world stays the same. The path unveils our identity. Our i...”
“You hear me, don't ever let anyone kill the spark inside you. No matter what.”
“Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community. You will face more hate and ridicule and ostracism than you can even begin to fathom. P...”
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”
“What kind of person am I?Am I even actually a person?I can never quite reach any kind of conclusion, sometimes I'm melancholic, sometimes I behave like a total fool, like a nut, and then suddenly I...”
“Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act.""To be myself, I have to put on an act," Ginny said bitterly."What's that mean?""It means I don't know who I am.”
