Identity quotations

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◆ I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

- Jeanette Winterson99

◆ I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who's broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don't know where we come from … we don't know where we are.

- Laurie Anderson99

◆ Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

- Madeleine L'Engle99

◆ Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

- Meghan O'Rourke99

◆ I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

- Beatrice Sparks99

◆ All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

- David Sedaris99

◆ You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

- Philip K. Dick99

◆ Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

- Brennan Manning99

◆ Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

- Bob Dylan99

◆ Through others we become ourselves.

- Lev S. Vygotsky99

◆ I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

- George MacDonald99

◆ Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don't care.

- 99

◆ It is not what you have in life that counts, but what you are.

- Vikrant Parsai99