It’ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying “Come up again, dear!”I shall only look up and say “Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then,if I like being that...

Centuries of social conditioning has created a generational fear among women of being perceived as masculine.This is where all the shaming and labels come into play, which perpetuate the oppression of girls and women. As...

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words,...

What we love we are.

It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed...

I don’t think that you should have to wait until after your identity has been compromised to do something.

I’ve triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

Viral videos aren’t just about being funny. They’re about identity creation.

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Doctors know nothing. Well. That’s kind of unfair. Let’s just say the world is unpredictable. Science is unreliable. It can’t tell you who you are or what you’ll want or how you’ll feel. All these...

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will...

It’s my diary”, she’d explained. “Every mark I’ve had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who I’ve been- so I never forget who I am and how I got here.”There was humour...

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

Time doesn’t age you; experience does.

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don’t know, you actually...

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

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...

Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward.

[…] alla fin fine, bisogna saper apprezzare i vantaggi che si traggono dalle proprie origini.

You are in no man’s land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

Death is not like going to sleep, it’s more like waking up from a dream and realizing the person you were in the dream wasn’t you, the problems you had in the dream weren’t your...

Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.

I don’t cover my face because I want to show my identity.

It’s the thing I never could write, the idea of identity and passage of the soul.

This is absolute—you were born wholly equipped with every prerequisite to rock the world. Spiritual deficits results in a habit to misidentify with a fragmented self, a fragmented story and thusly, a fragmented identity. We...

Sich mit diesem oder jenem zu identifizieren, ist also ein normaler Vorgang. Gefährlich wird es, sobald eine einzige Identität bestimmend wird, sobald man nur noch Muslim ist oder Christ oder Deutscher, Iraner oder meinetwegen Anhänger...

In our world, that’s the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it’s been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair...

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who’s pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that’s how I identify.

That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn’t even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way...

You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.

When you get your,’Who am I?’, question right, all of your,’What should I do?’ questions tend to take care of themselves

I’m a magician with no magic, and that’s no one at all.

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I’ve learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you’re betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell...

God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know...

You put on a bishop’s robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty...

Sometimes the most important conversation we can have is with the waves of the ocean or the dewdrops on a blade of grass. Sometimes the easiest way to love yourself is to realize that you...

We were searching for an identity the first few weeks of the season,

Everything a person is and everything he knows resides in the tangled thicket of his intertwined neurons. These fateful, tiny bridges number in the quadrillions, but they spring from just two sources: DNA and daily...

Aku bukan nasionalis, bukan katolik, bukan sosialis. Aku bukan buddha, bukan protestan, bukan westernis. Aku bukan komunis. Aku bukan humanis. Aku adalah semuanya. Mudah-mudahan inilah yang disebut muslim. Aku ingin orang menilai dan memandangku sebagai...

Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on;...

Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad...

The Only mattered to him.Iconoclasm.

Our identity rests in God’s relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.