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...

True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like...

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

I understood that people are trying to transform themselves all the time: the universal urge to be otherwise. So as not to look as they look, sound as they sound, be treated as they are...

There’s the trick: to find the way – whether forwards or back – to what we long to be.

true” and that it is based on real events that occurred in my life, they would more readily accept this than they do the explanation I try to give. Sadly, what they would believe feels...

She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound much like a goblin name?’ Billy made a face. ‘Too right! Granny calls...

If you can accept the indescribable nature of your true identity, you unveil the mystery of life.

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity...

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

to be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its’ best, night and day, to make you just like everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never...

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

I am not an angel,” I asserted; “and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

In all your getting, get understanding.

I am who I pretend to be, and right now I’m pretending to be my own clone.

I’ll wear a maze on a necklace, dangling over my chest, because if you want to get at my heart, you have to be ready to lose yourself.

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

It does seem – well, difficult – to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.

transsexual” are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting...

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold...

I figure the more people think I’m just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. … But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more...

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners.

and that’s all I ever am to them.

How do you eat your roots?

Maybe demons are defined as anything other than God that tries to tell us who we are. And maybe, just moments after Jesus’ baptism, when the devil says to him, “If you are the Son...

Yes, probably some words will be changed here and there, and this issue is under discussion, especially the Iraqi identity. We are discussing this article aiming at achieving an aspiration of the Arab League as...

…at some point we must achieve our identity -we can’t be always in adolescence seeking who we are…

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

If “Manners maketh man,” as someone saidThen he’s the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they say.”(Englishman in New York)

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

This has helped to create an identity that separates us from other tea companies.

In retrospect, I think those people dressed in costumes walking up Montparnasse must have seen someting before anybody else did. When they looked at me and said, “This guy comes with us,” I think it...

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who...