Identity Quotes

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Abraham Maslow

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word queer is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Derek Jarman

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Camille Anna Paglia

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Francis H. Bradley

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Vachel Lindsay

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Johann von Goethe

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Johann von Goethe

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Denis Waitley

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

Ambrose Bierce

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

Sydney J. Harris

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Deepak Chopra

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

George Gurdjieff

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

George Gurdjieff

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, 'Where are you from?' doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know?

Garrison Keillor

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Repetition builds continuity, Continuity builds history,History builds Identity.

Roshan Samtani

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Pearl Buck