Identity Quotes & Sayings

Identity Quotes & Sayings

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Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger



One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson



Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. - Erich Fromm



The real meditation is, the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilą une chose! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilą une chose! - Ezra Pound



Opiate: An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce



To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. - Robert Louis Stevenson



An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. - James Baldwin



While man, in his realm, has less chance for personal relations than woman, he may have more opportunities for giving himself creatively in work. Woman, on the other hand, has more chance for personal relations, but these do not give her a sense of her creative identity, the individual who has something of her own to say or to give. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh



American society is now remarkably atomised. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics. - Noam Chomsky