Identity Quotes - Page 6

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

Sometimes the most important conversation we can have is with the waves of the ocean or the dewdrops on a blade of grass. Sometimes the easiest way to love yourself is to realize that you are all these things. You are everything you’ve ever loved.

No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,

your heart must forget about
shame
 and dignity.
You are God's lover,

yet you worry
what people
are saying.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence

Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no - an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.