"Once you label me you negate me."

Identity, Freedom, Truth, Autonomy

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"She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Identity, Inclusion, Social, Difference

"The image of God is in every human."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, ImageOfGod, Human, Reflection

"When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, Approval, Conformity, Society

"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Identity, Freedom, Choice, Individual

"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Identity, Choice, Conformity, Individual, Life

"I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."

John Green, American Author

Identity, Self-Worth, Care, Truth

"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Identity, Original, Imitation, Authenticity

"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, SelfAcceptance, Society, Acceptance

"Find yourself, who are you?Choose yourself, who can you be?Define yourself to find your destination."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Identity, Self, Choose, Destination, Define

"It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Identity, Appearance, Truth, Perception

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"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."

Equality

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."

Being

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."

Being

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Life

"It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialecticalconsequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form ofproblemata, in order to seewhat a tremendous paradox faith is, a paradox which is capable of transforming amurder into a holy act well-pleasing to God, a paradox which gives Isaac back toAbraham, which no thought can master, because faith begins precisely there wherethinking leaves off."

Faith

"Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything."

Mortality

"As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself."

Irony

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"The image of God is in every human."

"When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have."

"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else."

"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."

"Find yourself, who are you?Choose yourself, who can you be?Define yourself to find your destination."

"It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance."

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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself."

"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything."

"As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself."