Quotes about Identity
Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.
— Paulo Coelho
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.
— John Updike
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
— Timothy Keller
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.
— Joyce Meyer
I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.
— Toni Collette
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
— Barbara Kingsolver
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
— Barry Zito
When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.
— Edward Welch
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
— Eleanor Roosevelt