Identity Quotes - Page 10

I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of us.

Charles Stross

I wanted to be that,The one which was vast,The one which laughed,The one which surpassed,Yes, which also collapsed.True, it was abstract.I wanted to be that.I still, want to be that!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

My places were emotional, primarily. I wrote of locales in which I had lived, or in which I imagined I could live, but the topography was primal and sexual and terminal. It bore no distinct architecture or design or dialect. It was merely human and in peril, which is to say universal. But on Royal and Coliseum and Vista--streets I cannot relinquish--I found my places and I dreamed a narrative. Can I go there and find it again?"--Tennessee Williams

James Grissom

Disturb my sleep but darling don't dare disturb my dreams!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually moving about serving tea had nothing to do with me. I had such high hopes, you see.The boundaries of the world seemed vast. I would visit Rome, Paris, Constantinople. Underground cafés presented in my mind where, crushed against wet walls, a (handsome, generous) friend and I sat discussing—many things. Deep things, new ideas. Strange green lights shone in the streets, the sea lapped nearby against greasy tilted moorings; there was trouble afoot, a revolution, into which my friend and I must— Well, as is often the case, my hopes were…not realized.

George Saunders

Gilly had decided that this was a dream. The Witches' Carnival didn't exist in the real world. And the Gilly who existed in the real world was not brave or cunning enough to have done everything that she'd done in the past day. The real Gilly was not beautiful enough to be lying in bed beside a woman like Maggie. Gilly had decided this was a dream, and also that she'd let that real Gilly, deep asleep somewhere in the outskirts of Birmingham, wither away and never wake up.Already, Gilly could see herself arcing across the earth bright as a comet, moving too fast for the Ashleys and Tracyes, the thousand tiny insults and humiliations of the waking world, to ever catch.

Kristopher Reisz

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

Dara Torres

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

Kathy Acker

In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.

Aysha Taryam

people around you are reflections of your own identity.

Jennifer Pierre

If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross over so as to avoid them. When she came in contact with people, she realised she split herself into many different, false, identities, but, because she loathed lying and deceit, she chose to absent herself completely rather than go through such a charade. Highsmith interpreted this characteristic as an example of 'the eternal hypocrisy in me', rather her mental shape-shifting had its source in her quite extraordinary ability to empathise. Her imaginative capacity to subsume her own identity, while taking on the qualities of those around her - her negative capability, if you like - was so powerful that she said she often felt like her inner visions were far more real than the outside world. She aligned herself with the mad and the miserable, 'the insane man who feels himself one with all mankind, all life, because in losing his mind, he has lost his ego, his self-ness', yet realised that such a state inspired her fiction. Her ambition, she said, was to write about the underlying sickness of this 'daedal planet' and capture the essence of the human condition: eternal disappointment.

Andrew Wilson

That door had a lot to say, people entered and people left but never the same!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

If we are not aware of who we are, how will we know where we are going or how we should get there

Sunday Adelaja

It is necessary to understand who you are

Sunday Adelaja

To know your purpose, you must identify yourself in the world and know who you are in the world

Sunday Adelaja

Unfortunately, people seldom think about the purpose they were uniquely designed to fulfil and don’t ask question of who they are or what their identity is

Sunday Adelaja

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are

Sunday Adelaja

Most people play the role that belongs to someone else

Sunday Adelaja

People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves

Sunday Adelaja

We become the people who are made by our family and society when we are ignorant of who we are

Sunday Adelaja

Identify your life mission and gift

Sunday Adelaja

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

Garth Risk Hallberg

I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was.

Catherine Lacey

The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

Ashly Lorenzana

I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."-p150, NOTES TO SELF

Avery Sawyer

Then August knew. Thomas didn’t dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn’t know what it was to be afraid. He knew he could get what he wanted, never questioning his identity or who he would be the next day.He was everything August wasn’t, and that’s why August hated him.

Kris Noel

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

Kim Stanley Robinson

We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed. We so want our pictures to paint differently than they do.

Heather Duffy Stone

The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.

Kamand Kojouri

If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.

Suzy Kassem

People try to build their identity around external things such as appearance and the clothes at the expense of neglecting the inner values of who they really are

Sunday Adelaja

Become Yourself

Sunday Adelaja

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

Sunday Adelaja

246. Become yourself

Sunday Adelaja

Your gift is not what you do but what you really are

Sunday Adelaja

Every man has a need to be great at something

Sunday Adelaja

You need to find your gift, something you can achieve better than others

Sunday Adelaja

A lot of mothers incorrectly see the meaning of their lives as being the designer or creator of their child’s life

Sunday Adelaja

You need to find your gift, something you love doing

Sunday Adelaja

You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others

Sunday Adelaja

One of the main keys of discovering your gift is question

Sunday Adelaja

Identify the sequence of stages that leads to turning your dreams into reality

Sunday Adelaja

Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life

Sunday Adelaja

Our identity should be about what sphere of life we ought to bring to light as Christians

Sunday Adelaja

Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage – to be oneself, no matter what others might say.

Fennel Hudson

Your purpose is your identity focus your energy on great purposes.

Amit Ray

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

Rob Ryser

But there was a special kind of gift that came with embracing the chaos, even if I cursed most of the way. I'm convinced that, when everything is wiped blank, it's life 's way of forcing you to become acquainted with and aware of who you are now, who you can become. What is the fulfillment of your soul?

Jennifer DeLucy

If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.

Ashly Lorenzana

Increasingly, I'm coming to believe that fear is at the heart of all sin and disaffection. Fear that God will not be enough for us; fear that the identity we've been given is somehow incomplete.

Jonathan Martin

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.

Brunonia Barry

Don’t you just love meeting new people in new places? It means I can be whoever I want to be. And guess what, sweet’eart? Today…I choose to be your worst nightmare.

S.R. Crawford

The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does not want to come to an end. . . . What you are afraid of is not death. In fact, you don't want to be free from fear. . . . It is the fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead. What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new science, new talk, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. Fear is the very thing that you do not want to be free from. What you call “yourself” is fear. The “you” is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions in fear and dies in fear.

U.G. Krishnamurti

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

Ron Brackin

We no longer find out identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.

Brandan Roberston

We no longer find our identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.

Brandan Roberston

To struggle to do means to fail to see. Doing spontaneously is directly related to perceiving and realising the integrity of your individual identity and value. Doing follows conclusion. I am, therefore I can!

François Du Toit

Humans recognize the duality, autonomy, and latitude range of the mind and the body, and all humans comprehend their impending mortality. Unlike other animals, humankind knows despair brought about by understanding the inevitability of death of all living creatures. The radius of human thought touching upon the longitude of our transient existence causes infinite pain. Seeking to ameliorate existential anguish incites us to ponder spiritual matters, and this sphere of mental activity spurs us to contemplate the perimeter of unknown frontiers. Our ability to understand the compass of life and death allows us to view the circumference of the world as consisting of a past, a present, and a future in relation to our own lives. How a person views the range of their earthly life and how a person rationalizes their march towards a deathly outback creates a system of beliefs that separate people into classes, and the variations amongst class members’ belief systems supplements who we think we are.

Kilroy J. Oldster

The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

Deepak Chopra

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