Identity Quotes - Page 5

There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death.

Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

The whole point about thinking brilliantly is about knowing your identity and the favor you have in Christ

Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

A miracle is nothing more nor less than this One who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the allpervading Wisdom and Power, thus makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.