Quotes about Identity
God—who totally accepts you, no matter what—to help you love and accept yourself.
— Sheila Walsh
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
— DH Lawrence
You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
— Erica Jong
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
— Erica Jong
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