He’d lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

I’ is merely one of the world’s instantaneous spasms.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Ao longo da vida vamos descobrindo aos poucos quem somos na realidade e, à medida que o descobrimos, perdemos parte da nossa identidade.

Don’t ever think that life is unfair. People may be different in status and identity, but what matters most is your personality. God created all humans with equal love and attention. In times that you...

Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story.

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

Darling, my darling, don’t think that I don’t love you or that I didn’t love you, but it’s precisely because I love you that I couldn’t have become what I am today if you were...

At eighteen, she already looks like a woman of sorrows and as her breaths start becoming shorter, tired of looking over her shoulder, she only wants to get away from this city where no one...

In the dynamics of the main family of the story, a rising socialist in England’s postwar government expects his grandparents to be pleased that the local aristocrat’s garden is commandeered to allow the people to...

The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and...

We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there’s an...

So often I’m like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as...

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.

You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me.We must have a turn...

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is...

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.

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

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...

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...