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Quotes about Identity

A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity--he is continually in for--and filling some other Body--The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute--the poet has none; no identity--he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures. If then he has no self, and if I am a Poet, where is the Wonder that I should say I would write no more?
— John Keats
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
— John Lennon
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
— John Lennon
You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.
— John Lennon
Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.
— John Lennon
People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.
— John Lennon
Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love
— John Lennon
What we do flows from who we are.
— Charles Colson
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
— Dolly Parton
...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
— Audre Lorde
We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.
— Oprah Winfrey
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
— Karl Barth