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Identity Quotes


"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."


"She has never understood, nor been able to relate to a herd mentality. She doesn't get along with followers and avoids the bandwagon. She marches to her own tune and does it alone. She's despised by the weak-minded and respected by the strong. She ruffles the feathers of the flock because she champion's the defenseless and pick's on the mob. Does she wish she could not give a damn and live an ordinary life surrounded by nodding and needy ordinary people? At times...but she'd be bored out of her mind when she's never bored alone, and because of that she's patient because a couple of times in a lifetime she's lucky enough to come across a memorable, magnetic and remarkable person - one worth knowing, even if just for the brevity of a conversation."



"Your calling is in your difference and uniqueness."


"We were chosen by God's to be His special possession."


"I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies."


"Eyes skip a low-key profile."


"Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way."


"You were born a winner, you decide whether you remain one or not."


"Your Signature Sound. In music, voice value is categorized for singers, composers, and listeners. Whether a performer's voice type is soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, or bass, they all have unique characteristics that make them unique and impressive. You, too, have a signature sound that is uniquely yours and makes you stand apart from the crowd."


"You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not."


"Allow your natural personality to shine through without pretending to be someone you're not, or you may be stuck with that label forever."


"If your nationality is lost, nothing is lost " if your religion is lost, nothing is lost " if your ethnicity is lost, nothing is lost " but if your character is lost, then you are more lost than Donald Trump."


"How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in."



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


"She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her."



"Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift."


"It's so easy for some people to get naked. They think they're so promiscuous and avant-garde and rebellious... but year-round their souls are covered in winter clothing! My soul is promiscuous, now how's that for being a rebel without a cause? They are amateurs."



"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."



"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."


"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."


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


"Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl."


"Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again."



"Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called."



"You must show the world that you are a chosen generation."


"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else."


"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'."


"Don't be deceived; who they say you are, is not who you become. You become who you think you are. You take the chair in your own programmings!"


"She was drawn to the wild warriors, they had to have a little gypsy in their veins."


"Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true."


"If you buy an egg thinking it's a goose's egg, and when it hatches it is actually a bird of paradise; no manner of convincing and reproach will turn the bird of paradise into a goose. Even if you make it go to goose church and goose school and eat goose feeds and only hang out with geese! In the end, it will still belong to paradise."


"Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have spent vast amounts of your life as someone else, as people who died long ago, as people who never lived, as strangers you never met."


"The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter."


"Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves."


"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."



"Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it's easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart."



"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."


"Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow."


"I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear."
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