“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
— Veronica Roth“Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken.”
— Neil Gaiman“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.[, 2005]”
— Steve Jobs“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
— Joseph Conrad“Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.”
— Phil Lester“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
— Shannon L. Alder“The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”
— Wendy Wasserstein“The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it.”
— Ashly Lorenzana“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”
— Brennan Manning“You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.”
— Stormie Omartian“Life isn't always about finding yourself. More often than not, it's about discovering who God created you to be.”
— David A.R. White“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”
— Ralph Ellison“I don't know who I am right now. But I know who I'm not. And I like that.”
— Amber Smith“There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.”
— Curtis Sittenfeld“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
— Shannon L. Alder“Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love.”
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal“We are each what never leaves us, what we never seethe back ofis the self. But what loves usis at the back, as Eurydice wasescorting him outwithout his knowing.”
— Christina DavisThe greatest challenge in life is being yourself... in a world trying to make you like everyone else.
— George Bernard ShawThe greatest challenge in life is being yourself... in a world trying to make you like everyone else.
— George Bernard ShawWorry more about what you want to do than what you want to be.
— Barack ObamaA man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
— Malcolm XDon’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free.
— E.A. BucchianeriDon’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free.
— E.A. BucchianeriI feel free when I see no one and nobody knows who I am.
— Lana Del ReyPeople create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
— Chinua AchebeOne of the great tragedies of colonialism was that the colonized started mimicking the colonizer.
— Chinua AchebeA language is a carrier of people's memories and experiences, their link between space and time, their vision of the world.
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oIf you know all the languages of the world and you don’t know your mother tongue, that is enslavement.
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oHow did we arrive at a situation where the majority of African children know more about European languages and history than about their own?
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oEducation, far from giving people the confidence in their ability to shape their own lives, undermined their sense of identity and confidence.
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oA tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
— Wole SoyinkaOne's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community.
— Wole SoyinkaA people denied the right to their history is a people deprived of their humanity.
— Wole SoyinkaWe can only be what we are, and what we are can only be understood in context.
— Nadine GordimerThe past is a place that is not there anymore. It is a shadow, an echo. It does not exist, except in the mind, in the heart.
— Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorIt’s exhausting being a person, even more exhausting being a family. All the things you take for granted in yourself, the essential you, you become separate from.
— A.S. ByattWhat you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person.
— A.S. ByattI don't think of myself as an artist, but as a filmmaker.
— Werner HerzogI think a lot of people feel that they know me, but they really don’t.
— Calvin TrillinThe moment a person starts to become aware of himself and his surroundings, he becomes a person in his own right.
— Eric BerneWe are all the authors of our own stories, and the paths we choose will define us.
— A.C. GraylingSometimes you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.
— A.G. HowardYou are not defined by your past; you are prepared by it.
— A.R. MerrydewYour past does not define you; it is just a chapter in your story.
— A.S. KingThe most important thing about a man is not what he does, but what he believes.
— A.W. TozerYou are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
— Abbi GlinesYour story is your own. Don't let anyone else write it for you.
— Abbie EmmonsThe best stories are the ones that reflect the truth of who we are.
— Abbie EmmonsEmbrace your uniqueness; it’s what sets you apart.
— Abbie EmmonsThere is a tension between being human and being a person.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel