I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am. —Veronica Roth in Insurgent More about this quote Tags: action identity regret guilt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? —Erich Fromm More about this quote Tags: power identity loss possession control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The rich are different from us. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: identity wealth different Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. —Jackson Pollock More about this quote Tags: self-discovery discovery identity art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that. —Darren Shan in Sons of Destiny More about this quote Tags: life memory past identity kids Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. —Jean Baudrillard More about this quote Tags: identity self liberation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: knowledge safety identity change world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This work is about transformation — from the person we are to the person we really are. In the end, we can't be anyone else. —Marion Rosen More about this quote Tags: identity work transformation Someone else Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: identity self travel paradise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. —Cary Grant More about this quote Tags: imagination identity transformation pretend Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. —Dr. Seuss More about this quote Tags: honesty identity denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are. —Jess C. Scott in The Devilin Fey More about this quote Tags: love relationships identity envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: being identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. —J. D. Salinger More about this quote Tags: love identity girls stupidity prettiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I miss the old me. —Ann Aguirre in Aftermath More about this quote Tags: time identity change self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email