Quotes about Identity

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

We are what we pretend to be.

You were born to be amazing.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like France or England, to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.