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.

There’s no such thing as identity: it’s something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

When you know who you are, you know what to do.

In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from...

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that diverge from the narrative laid down at the inception of the nation can...

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of...

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth!

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the...

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Then he realized: ‘I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.’ In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

My best works are for me. Not for the world.

Your identity doesn’t come from your address.

Word has traveled quickly that just because you’re on island doesn’t mean you have to be stranded—as long as you have cash.

It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in...

He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.

Personal branding is important to me as a person. It’s also important to me as a non-person. I am a rock.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one’s spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of...

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here,” he said, so softly I could barely hear him, “here in the dark, with you… I...

Identity is not the face,Identity is not the trait,Neither is it the success pace,Nor is it the personality grace.Let alone it being your cliché phrase,Or did you think,It’s some religious faith?My child, it’s alarming that...

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was...

When you understand who you are, you cause the world to change in your favor.

I don’t think the overall identity of the conference has changed. We’ve been a good conference, and we are a good conference. There’s more teams, I guess that’s the change. The only thing that people...

The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don’t really belong to any identity, any nationality.

The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feels ‘invisible’ in a public sense precisely because her physical being – her ‘visibility’ – figures so prominently in...

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things that you’re willing to lose are...

They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at once wet and crisp, the trees dripping jewels, the flowers drunk on drinking,...

I don’t care what is written,” Meyer Landsman says. “I don’t care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son’s throat...

I constructed a new identity. It wasn’t me, I’m anti-fascist and anti-extremist, but it was someone who was sympathetic to them,

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

Sviluppate la vostra legittima stranezza.

One ever feels his twoness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I

the man eventually becomes what he dreams of”By T. Afsin Ilgar – Ted`s Tale

social” space, communal territories, or even national identities.

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your...

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)

…as I was sifting through a heap of old and new “identity cards,” I noticed that something was missing: my identity.

I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.

We are just a pixel in the canvas of the universe. Shifting colours, sometimes green, sometimes blue, sometimes red, and sometimes black, to fit in this grandness.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that’s why it survives.”[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit...

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along...

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.

I’m learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve...