Identity theft is a huge problem, and every number and indicator shows that it’s on the rise. This is not a question of six degrees of separation — everybody knows somebody who’s been a victim.

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all...

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

Anders als die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika haben sich die meisten europäischen Nationalstaaten auf der Grundlage von Homogenisierungen entwickelt; historisch liegt ihnen das Ideal einer Einheit von Blut, Kultur, Sprache und Religion zugrunde. Dieser Drang...

The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth...

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from...

The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.It was something. Don’t...

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* … We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It’s not heard or seen or thought it’s...

Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence except for the reaction of other people to that fact. So he listens...

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

Our identity encompasses toughness now because she supplies it. She wants the ball, she’s not afraid of any type of defense or any type of circumstance, and she guards the heck out of people.

You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary...

I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

I really like how this team is playing right now. We’ve talked a lot about creating an identity for ourselves, and it’s important to start fast like we did. We have some high expectations this...

METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals — whether ecstatic or abysmal — we should be obliged to change our names, as we are no longer who we once were. Instead...

Group membership can modify individuals’ perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an “imaginary audience”, meaning that they...

The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life- as the only meaningful...

Great Other” of transcendence.

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone…Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the...

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Don’t let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.

We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find.

I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares...

If my name were Oscar, I’d want to be an actor and win my namesake award and take back my identity.

Mammals require three essentials in life, identity, stimulation, and security, and by far the most important of these three psychological cornerstones is identity.

Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

Identity is not the face,Identity is not the trait,Neither is it the success pace,Nor is it the personality grace.Let alone it being your cliché phrase,Or did you think,It’s some religious faith?My child, it’s alarming that...

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.