Quotes about Identity
Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
— Isabel Allende
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
— John Lennon
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
— Peter Kreeft
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft
You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?
— Anonymous
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems
— Walt Whitman
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
— Stephen Colbert
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
— Barack Obama
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The political is personal.
— Gloria Steinem
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
— Catherine of Siena