Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God’s lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

Don’t say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals ‘fine choice.

My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.

To live without purpose is like to wake up in the morning, walk out of your door into the street without destination

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

To know Jesus Christ, you must first understand his supernatural identity. He is God.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.

A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.

We must not be anything other than what we are.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.

But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a...

…the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.

Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours...

I know genes are a big deal, son, but they’re not the be-all and end-all.” Rob slowed to a halt at the lights, wishing the dickhead behind would back off. “If they were, you’d be...

A person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest contacts with the whole (external) world and is most intimately involved with it precisely because of its inwardness, its interior life.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler,...

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant...

When the lord gives a human a life to live with and all the things they need, why do the humans give back the money to the lord ? Are humans that crazy ? Or...

True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like...

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

I understood that people are trying to transform themselves all the time: the universal urge to be otherwise. So as not to look as they look, sound as they sound, be treated as they are...

There’s the trick: to find the way – whether forwards or back – to what we long to be.

true” and that it is based on real events that occurred in my life, they would more readily accept this than they do the explanation I try to give. Sadly, what they would believe feels...

She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound much like a goblin name?’ Billy made a face. ‘Too right! Granny calls...

I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual’s autobiography, on the...

There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to.

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine...

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don’t have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and...

The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal, a god, a goddess, or a natural force that is not his everyday...

I think it is a kind of subject matter that needed exploring … the identity of the single woman had not caught up with what was happening. Which was that a lot of perfectly attractive,...

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part...

It does seem – well, difficult – to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.

transsexual” are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting...

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold...

I figure the more people think I’m just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. … But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more...

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners.

and that’s all I ever am to them.

How do you eat your roots?

Maybe demons are defined as anything other than God that tries to tell us who we are. And maybe, just moments after Jesus’ baptism, when the devil says to him, “If you are the Son...

Yes, probably some words will be changed here and there, and this issue is under discussion, especially the Iraqi identity. We are discussing this article aiming at achieving an aspiration of the Arab League as...

…at some point we must achieve our identity -we can’t be always in adolescence seeking who we are…

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.