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Identity Quotes
"The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself."
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"How old are you?""About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did," Bod said, but Mother Slaughter interrupted, "And I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, making daisy chains in the old pasture. You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it."
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"I have never tried to be a good person, or to appear to be a good person. What I do and what I have done is merely a side effect of my desire to become me. I have only wanted to be me; if people think I'm good, then so be it. If people think I'm bad, then so be it. But if anything, my greatest struggle is to not come across as so good. I always find myself asking, "Why do I keep on giving off this immense impression of goodness?" Can I ask the world, am I not simply allowed to be me; without needing to be classified as either good or bad? Being known as good has its own prison just as much as being bad has its jail bars. I am so tired of the need to classify people. I am me."
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"You are the forward edge of life's advancement, in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life's brilliance."
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"The desire to be cool is-ultimately-the desire to be rescued."
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"Every woman is different in her own special way."
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"The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out."
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"You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?"
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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."
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"What is she to you anyway?""Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch."
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"To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!"
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"Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners."
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"If you are with me long, I will begin to spell Master with two M's."
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"We are each authors of a self-concocted depiction establishing our present day identity. Our persona is woven from a range of truths interweaved with inspired imagination and occasionally bounded by convenient falsehoods. Creating our personal story generates an identity myth that allows us to carry on."
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"Were I but perfectly normal, I would just not be."
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"Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials."
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"When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment."
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"You don't need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It's the society that needs to see you, through your eyes."
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"I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not intellectual. I do not understand abstract act. Only art born of love, passion, pain."
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"The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill."
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"Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous to be who you are!"
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"Complex is something that distort our perception of ourselves and the world."
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"All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary."
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"My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it."
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"And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts."
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"Who is considered a person [vyakti]? The one who has manifested (expressed) a little in the embodied self [vyakt] can be known as a person [vyakti]. If he is manifested (expressed) completely, he is known as a special person."
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"He felt as if there were something missing inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle. It went beyond his title. He had enjoyed their company early in his adolescence, but it had become apparent that he'd always be a step away. The worst of it was that they didn't seem to notice he was different- or that he felt different. Were it not for Chaol, he would have felt immensely lonely."
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"Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves."
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"Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not."
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"You are nothing but a reflection of your imagination. Be yourself to create a better self."
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"I don't fit in because I don't want to disappear."
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"I am not the river I am the net."
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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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"You are the author of your own life story. You have the leading role and get to determine how you interact with your supporting cast and other characters. Without realizing it, you may have allowed the events in your life to write your story for you rather than taking deliberate action to write it in your own voice. What will it take to love your life story to create the happy endings you desire?"
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"To succeed and reach your life goals, you must know who you are."
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"Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease-that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."
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"We seldom look up to the person, we usually look up to their persona."
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"Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name 'Malcolm Price' was used."
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"Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know."
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"You greatest gift is who you are, not just what you do."
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"I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do."
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