"I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong."

Identity, Courage, Choice, Selflessness

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"I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong."

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"She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixednature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Identity, Emotion, Anger, Timidity

"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"They can award me with the greatest accolades and reward me with the finest diamonds. They can name days and streets after me, canonise and celebrate me. They can make me the queen of their kingdom, the president of their nation. They can carry my picture in their wallets and whisper my name in their prayers but, tell me, what is all this worth if your voice isn't the one calling me home?"

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Identity, Voice, Home, Values, Recognition

"You need to find your gift, something that differs you from others."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, Gift, Difference, Purpose

"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

Identity, Years

"Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Identity, Attitude, Self-Confidence, Comfort

"If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place."

Sitting Bull, Lakotan Statesman

Identity, First, Man, Spirit

"Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings' identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing's existence until we discern its entire history from development to demise."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Identity, Existence, History, Truth

"After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn't say, "I fuck therefore I am"."

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"I should have forgiven him."Maybe. Maybe there's more we all could have done, he says, "but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.I frown and pull back. That is a lesson that members of Abnegation learn " guilt as a tool, rather than a weapon against the self."

Redemption, Guilt, Forgiveness, Responsibility

"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."

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"Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of."

Dreams, Dream, Hope, Sky, Emotion

"Honor, I said with a snort. "Honor has no place in survival."

Survival, Honor, Reality, Cynicism

"If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it."

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"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."

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"The person you became with her is worth being."

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"It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first."

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"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."

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