Quotes about Identity

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

I want to change my name on Facebook to "Nobody," so when I see someone posting something stupid I can Like their post and it will say "Nobody likes this."

I made my Facebook name "Benefits," so when you add me now it says "you're friends with benefits."

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

The sense of being alone is a huge issue for so many people in this world. As a worshipper of Jesus, there's a very real sense that we are always seen, held and known.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

I don't remember when I did not know Port William, the town and the neighborhood. My relation to that place, my being in it and my absences from it, is the story of my life. That story has surprised me almost every day—but now, in the year 1986, so near the end, it seems not surprising at all but only a little strange, as if it all has happened to somebody I don't yet quite know. Certainly, all of it has happened to somebody younger.

And yet in Port William, as everywhere else, it was already the second decade of the twentieth century. And in some of the people of the town and the community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were someplace else.

The only time Tol's clothes looked good was before he put them on.