Quotes About Finding Your Identity

#1. When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.

Hilarie Burton

#2. Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

Alice Cooper

#3. Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

Pearl S. Buck

#4. Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Erin Gruwell

#6. Life isn't always about finding yourself. More often than not, it's about discovering who God created you to be.

David A.R. White

#7. Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

Raquel Cepeda

#8. Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.

Kevin DeYoung

#9. But, do not stay there. Spiritual adulthood has higher goals than "finding yourself." A reactive stage is a stage, not an identity. It is necessary, but not sufficient.

Henry Cloud

#10. I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

Josh Lucas

#11. Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell.

Anne Lamott

#12. Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Gustave Flaubert

#13. If the churches, mosques and other religious centres could come together to embrace a nation's value system, and then set out to disciple the nation in these values and virtues, then the greatness of such a nation is inevitable.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

W. Kamau Bell

#15. We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

Jane Fulton Alt

#16. Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them
the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

W. H. Auden

#17. Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Jennifer Capriati

#18. And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?

Robert Fulghum

#19. I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

Michael Douglas

#20. Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

Robert E. Terwilliger

#21. When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

David Richo

#22. The happy life is impossible without finding an answer to the question "why am I here? What am doing here?

Sunday Adelaja

#23. Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth ...

Thomas Moore

#24. Everything is music for the born musician.

Romain Rolland

#25. I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.

Steve-O

#26. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

#27. I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

Marco Beltrami

#28. We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

Carson McCullers

#29. I was about to take over the world,but then I saw something shiny.

Anonymous

#30. I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#31. Where are you supposed to go when you no longer feel welcome in the places you turned to because you didn't feel welcome anywhere else?

Laura Jane Grace

#32. Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

John Dryden

#33. When I discovered music - when I discovered the craft of shaping a song - my being fell into place.

Charlotte Eriksson

#34. You drink from the source to become the source. You lose your identity in Him to become like Him."
Secrets to Divine Manifestation: Finding Your Life Purpose Through the Rebirth of Your Soul

Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

#35. To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Marshall Allman

#36. Sometimes a choppy wave would swamp me, and after I rose gasping I would vomit the foul-tasting water, wiping the sea from my eyes and nostrils. Then I regained my posture to do battle, again with the Solent.

Stephen Richards

#37. These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.

Alexandra Kleeman

#38. I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze
and so do you.
Not out of disrespect.
Out of pique.
Out of a man-to-man thing.

Anne Sexton

#39. The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#40. I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.

Jack White

#41. Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you being. Bring the kundalini down again from the heart center to the navel center.

Frederick Lenz