"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity."

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"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Identity, Self, Reflection, Metaphor

"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Identity, Self, Reflection, Knowledge, Affection

"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Identity, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, Effectiveness, Success, Purpose

"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

Janet Fitch, American Author

Identity, Pain, Survival, Memory

"You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Identity, Truth, Symbol, Wisdom, Power

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Identity, Houses, Property

"Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Identity, Uniqueness, Love, Self, Presence

"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Identity, Choice, Self, Change

"If I'm me.And you're you.Then who's this in the mirror?"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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Explore more quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Habit

"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."

Life

"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."

Life

"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."

Health

"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."

Man

"The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."

Life

"Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie."

Poetry

"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong."

Joy

"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."

Happiness

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

Courage