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Identity Quotes
"Some boys feel they are like girls,They are gentle, and like their hair in curls."
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"She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn't know."
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"Accept yourself in the way you were created by God, do not anyone else."
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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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"The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic."
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"I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls."
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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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"Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes."
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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
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"I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam."
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"Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become."
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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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"Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They sacrifice what they never had: a self. The cry of the deserted woman, 'What have I done to deserve this?' reveals at once the false emotional economy that she has been following."
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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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"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes."
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"To be meshed with Christ is to be immersed in his love."
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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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"In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indication of aggressive sexuality. Men cultivate it, just as they are encouraged to develop competitive and aggressive instincts, women suppress it, just as they suppress all the aspects of their vigour and libido."
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"Don't let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are."
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"I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult."
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"Find your uniqueness and embrace it with pride."
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"In the mirror we see a stranger,Not the person we were born to be,For we are all pretending,Just for everyone to see."
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"Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, you have yet to be defined."
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"All which is regarded as 'my', belongs to the non-Self. 'I' is the Self and 'my' is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying 'this is mine' in the worldly interactions, but the 'I', 'who am I?', must be decided from within."
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"Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think."
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"Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else."
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"I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point."
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"If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant."
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"Due to the monstrous activity of a handful of extremists, the majority of the human society has been conditioned to believe that the term 'musalman' is somehow synonymous with terrorism. But the reality is, the term 'musalman' refers to someone with 'musallam iman,' that means, a pure conscience. Thus any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves his or her neighbor is a Christian. Hence, scriptures can't define your religion, only your actions with other people do."
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"Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't."
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"I am eithera stormor a drought.in-betweenshave neverbeen my thing."
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"It's like I am inside this ethereal sphere wherein exists no logic, no reasoning, no typicality, no explanations, no realism, no comparisons, nothing ordinary, and no normalcy. And then if you are to understand me, you have to step into my realm and leave all of those things behind. I'm not typical. I'm not ordinary. And I'm not normal. And I never will be . So I don't see the point of waking up in the morning and wishing to be so."
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"If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him."
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"I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined."
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"The land is always there...it is you who has to return."
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"Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.In following him I follow but myself;Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,But seeming so for my peculiar end.For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, 'tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am."
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"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 what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself."
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"Everything that makes you, you, is a biologically existential expression of your entire brain."
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