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Identity Quotes
"Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves."
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"After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don't understand, using a currency whose value you don't comprehend, walking down streets you've never walked down before, you discover that your old "I, along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences."
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"We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world."
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"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence."
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"All I know is I'm not a Marxist."
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"So, you see; you have the soul of a missionary, the heart of a revolutionary and the mind of a reformer. But what are you to yourself and the family and friends who will always be there for you?"
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"It's not about who you used to be, it's about who you have become."
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"I don't fit in because I don't want to disappear."
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"I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless."
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"My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified."
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"Why is being a nerd so bad? saying " I noticed you're a nerd is like saying hey, I noticed you'd rather be intelligent that stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan."
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"Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty-the world of the elderly-thrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; the moors and Byron; the sea and the lighthouse; the sheep's jaw with the yellow teeth in it; upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable-"I am what I am, and intend to be it, for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making it. Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head."
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"The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition."
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"Your Skin is not a deprivation, your life is not a defeat, the fact that you call yourself black does not mean that your eyes, soul and brain are black try to whiten yourself. If they blackmail you, whitemail yourself.Don't allow people's opinion to pin you down. Build yourself above the standard of slavery."
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"This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet."
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"I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves."
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"An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people's intellect or wisdom at your own risk."
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"People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that's because they don't want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised."
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"If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, living may turn into a schizophrenic merry-go-round and the real self might be crunched and munched on, piece by piece. ['He did not know that she knew']"
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"Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator!"
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"Writing is an exemplary means to make contact with the whole of the self. What ultimately makes up the self is a collation of personal knowledge derived from physical, mental, and emotional experiences. The only way to divine the self is to understand what comprises its constituent components. The self is what we do, think, and act. Writing is not merely a documenter of the actions of the self. Writing, similar to other artistic activities, is one of the fundamental activities that a self can perform."
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"So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!"
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"I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there."
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"There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people."
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"Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants."
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"I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you..."
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"The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one."
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"True leadership is caring about the people who don't care about things you care about."
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"Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you."
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"And do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and therefore neither one. I was just explaining to your Aunt Queen. I was born endowed with the finest traits of both sexes and I drift this way and that as I choose."
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"It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world."
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"You greatest gift is who you are, not just what you do."
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"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."
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"Each of us is like all of us and like no one else."
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"Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him."
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"Clothes don't make a man. They only make an impression and even then, you dress to suit the occasion."
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