He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

Ego, Identity and Self – the 3 concepts of one’s creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing...

If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you...

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. ―

Evildoers beware!” and was thus much too silly ever to be sung out loud. She would hum it to herself sometimes though, in the shower, during the soapy bits.And that is, more or less, everything...

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual.” – Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

But I never looked like that!’ – How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it – by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where...

Can’t nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don’t like that, you don’t have to explain a thang to’m. All you got to say is, ‘I’m Charlotte...

I don’t own you, you just belong to me.

Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth [identity] is may be none of...

In spite of the three hours I spent combing over the details, I have, to this day, a very persistent certainty that hidden inside me is the revolting knowledge of days when I wasn’t quite...

The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay....

I think about how maybe it’s not things that change but people that change, and maybe that’s the change everyone is really talking about.

If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is about US. Through our cause we are getting a self, our worth. That...

…that it is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity.

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for...

I’ve never been impulsive. It’s always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that...

I’ve wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn’t change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I...

I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist…I am a person who does those things.

… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the...

Socialism provides safety in numbers. And that’s OK, if you don’t mind trading your name—your identity and individualism—for a number.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I’m afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

How do you know you are who you are? How do you know you’re not simply a clone of who you think you are?

Oh come on, smile. Lisa, Jack… being bisexual is hardly a crime. Best of both worlds, isn’t it?’And Ianto pushed her away. ‘No,Gwen. No, really it’s bloody not. It’s the worst of any world because...

Animals hold us to what is present: to who we are at the time, not who we’ve been or how are bank accounts describe us. What’s obvious to an animal is not the embellishment that...

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You...

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

He thought: that’s certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That’s how it happens that one fine day a person...

The players showed a lot of pride in their part to establish an identity we’re trying to form here,

I didn’t know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls…

We’ve kind of gotten into a little bit of a rhythm the last four weeks, more us. That identity was one that was very good for us last year, and we’ve been operating pretty good...

I am everything what u see and I can be anything what I want to be.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

It’s toys, boy, all toys. You’ll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you’ll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what’s inside you...

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it’s the little facts that make us.

At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time...

Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light....

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by...

You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.

Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning...