Quotes about Identity
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.
— Dolly Parton
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be of no Church is dangerous.
— Samuel Johnson
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
— William James
We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
— Francis de Sales
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
— Henry David Thoreau
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.
— Oprah Winfrey
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
— George Bernard Shaw
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
— George Eliot