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Identity Quotes


"Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer."


"Do you really want people to like you for something that you're not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others."


"If you can't see the assets in you, it will be hard for you to export it to the world. Recognise who you are and the world will recognise you."


"Everything that makes you, you, is a biologically existential expression of your entire brain."


"Before you try to be like anyone else, find out if you are your true self, because if you try to be like anyone else including me, that means you do not know who you are. Selah! The day yourself will rise, the people that you want to be like will not be there."


"Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed."


"Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities."


"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"


"Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either."


"If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard."


"The most disgusting in the world is being unaware of who we are."


"The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar; they both have different sizes but one more thing not to forget is that "they are important in their own roles"! Each is unique! You are unique too. Take the lead!"


"You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether you choose man-made labels like 'religious' and 'atheist', or your innate natural label gifted by Mother Nature, i.e. 'human'."


"It's most unfair. Once people find out you're a vampire they act as if you're some kind of monster."


"That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors."


"People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."


"There are several ways to wear a hat or a cap. A man may express himself in the pitch or tilt of a hat, but not with a helmet. It won't go on any other way. It sits level on the head, low over eyes and ears, low on the back of the neck. With your helmet on you are a mushroom in a bed of mushrooms."


"I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don't love-until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellulite on your stomach-but not only do I get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side. Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? You bet I would. That is why it's such a blessing that I'm not left to my own devices."


"We all have so many functions, so many ways of existing. In my own vision of myself, I am a scholar who lives quietly, and pens his little tales, and dreams about a past that may or may not have existed. And that is true, as far as it goes. But I am also, in one of my capacities, like so many of the people you have chosen to associate with, a psychopomp. I escort the living to the world of the dead."


"The light of God's love makes us unique personalities."


"He's not that smart."She's right, Augustus says. "It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations."Right, it's primarily his hotness."It can be sort of blinding, he said."It actually did blind our friend Isaac."Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?"You cannot."It is my burden, this beautiful face."Not to mention your body."Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away, he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank."


"We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not."


"She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe."


"No man was born empty, every man was born with a worth."


"People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song."


"I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into."


"I guess the all and all answer in life is what Facades you want to believe in the most."


"The complex called the feeling of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created."


"I was born handsome and I will die handsome."


"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated."


"The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you."



"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious."


"You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission."


"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."


"There is no Them. There are only facets of Us."


"If a man realizes who he is, he will not be envious of others or condemn them because he knows his own value, uniqueness and peculiar contribution."


"A Christian's mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community."


"A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don't dare or know how to communicate them to others."
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