Identity proverbs

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◆ Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ We know what we are, but not what we may be.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

- Orson Scott Card99

◆ A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

- Coco Chanel99

◆ The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein99

◆ You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez99

◆ It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

- Patrick Rothfuss99

◆ We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ I am a citizen of the world.

- Sylvia Beach99

◆ All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

- Nick Hornby99

◆ I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

- Betty Friedan99