Identity Quotes - Page 9

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

The most important things to be acquired for freedom and democracy, are identity and dignity.

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

Sviluppate la vostra legittima stranezza.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Everything is music for the born musician.

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?

I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason.

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversions. Layering her life, only to strip it bare. Only to be alone in the end. Her life had been paired down to its solitary components.

So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all.

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.

I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to sleep, you probably might have met someone else when I was asleep and claimed it to be changed me.

I miss my old life