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.

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...

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...

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a...

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.

We are not what we do, we are not what we have, we are not what others think of us. Coming home is claiming the truth. I am the beloved child of a loving creator.

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the precise moment that a buyer needs it.Search, a marketing method that didn’t exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and...

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

I realize then that it’s not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

Be the person you really are and not the person you’e allowed yourself to become,” Kate said to Nikki. From ‘Life Song

Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver…History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards us and then sink away and some we hook out and others we ignore....

Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?

Although healing brings a better life, it also threatens to permanently alter life as you’ve known it. Your relationships, your position in the world, even your sense of identity may change. Coping patterns that have...

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

I have no definable history before I was abandoned and taken in by the orphanage in Hong Kong. I truly am a blank sheet. I have been disconnected from my ancestors. I don’t know who...

Sometimes I get the feeling that we’re just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they’re just our need to be recognized. Without them, we’d be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent...

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise,...

Be as advertised.

Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

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...