Quotes about Identity
What other people think is more important than what we feel.
— Paulo Coelho
We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.
— Paulo Coelho
Anyone who loves needs to know both how to lose himself and how to find himself.
— Paulo Coelho
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."
— Paulo Coelho
Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).
— Richard Paul Evans
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.
— Rick Warren
Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.
— Serena Williams
Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.
— Sonia Sotomayor
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.
— Stephen Jay Gould