Quotes about Identity
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
- Jack Kerouac
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
- John Eldredge
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
- John Eldredge
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
- John Ortberg
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
- Mark Twain
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
You have to embark on your own quest to discover why you are on this planet, what makes you get out of bed in the morning, and what you uniquely contribute to the world.
- Danny Silk