625 quotes found
“I havent been disingenuous in what Ive said describing my perception of truth and reality. Certainly, I understand what is generally meant to be the truth, I understand this notion, but its not som...”
“Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standa...”
“Sometimes it seems my identitys a matter of opinion”
“When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he did...”
“Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identit...”
“I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.”
“Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.”
“Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.”
“Oh Harry," [Gwen] said. "I wish I were a different kind of person."What kind of person, he wanted to know."Someone," she said slowly, "who truly loves life."He was still looking at her, still cradl...”
“You can't see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there in the world, as you move among your fellow human beings, whether strangers or friends or the m...”
“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”
“The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determi...”
“So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.”
“Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it.”
“Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming.”
“Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.”
“Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?”
“...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close...”
“New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.”
“You can't change who you are, can you? That would require changing the people who made you along the way. That would mean discrediting everything they ever gave you.”
