Quotes about Identity

It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not. Knowing what you're not will help you stay focused on becoming who you are, because there will always be pressures to be this, to be that, to be the other.

You can't let the outside pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not.

Don't discount your gift. It may seem small to you. Compared to others, it feels insignificant, but there is nothing ordinary about you. You have the fingerprints of God all over you. God made you in His own image. He crowned you with favor. You have royal blood flowing through your veins.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

I think. I am. I will.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend