Quotes About Identity And Love

#1. The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

Anne Lamott

#2. Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#3. I love how simple this is for her. I love that her solution to everything is to tell the truth. I struggle with my identity and she tells me just to say what's true.

Nicola Yoon

#4. The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

Hiromi

#5. Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

Delta Burke

#6. I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

Wynton Marsalis

#7. Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Jerzy Kosinski

#8. God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity.

Paul David Tripp

#9. Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

Helder Camara

#10. The trick ... is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Wendy Wasserstein

#11. The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves - is the ethical choice at the heart of love. The other person, their identity and feelings, can be sacrificed for our pleasure.

Rod Dubey

#12. I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I don't want to commit to going down one road.

Brandon Flowers

#13. The true essence of who you are, balances itself upon a cushion of purity, benevolence, and holiness.

Garey Gordon

#14. Falling in love is when your emotional, physical and spiritual well-being is wrapped up in another person and identity of self is lost. EL

Evinda Lepins

#15. Dani said this woman, with whom she'd lived for two years, had never known her. "I feel like people accept the first thing I show them," she said, "and that's all I ever am to them.

Mary Gaitskill

#16. When love wins, then it wins in fact only through love. But those who love cannot guarantee the victory of love. One can believe in the victory of love only in the sense that one believes in the identity of God and love.

Eberhard Jungel

#17. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#18. I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

William Shakespeare

#19. The path you walk is unique and needed. There is no other like yours. On your path you experience love, joy and peace, as well as loneliness, sadness and torment. These all are specific lessons you choose to rediscover your divine identity.

Raphael Zernoff

#20. He felt torn. He wanted her to feel safe with him, but he also wanted her to feel the sort of heady excitement that any young girl should feel when they fall in love. He wanted to give her everything she craved, and he was not quite sure he could do it.

Emily Arden

#21. We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

Leo Buscaglia

#22. When love is reciprocal, two people reveal each to the other through their mutual appreciation and jointly create something new. I give you as a gift to you. It is a ritual of naming and identity.

Rod Dubey

#23. In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.

Armin Van Buuren

#24. If I wasn't so phenomenal. I would go back to you.

Coco J. Ginger

#25. We are all children of a God who knows us, loves us, and is there for us, especially in our sorrow and suffering. To be separated from Him is to be lost.

Toni Sorenson

#26. Every time love touches my heart, I am changed. And each time the identity I had thought to be mine and to be my last, dissolves like raindrops into the ground, ready to nourish the new I have found.

Atalina Wright

#27. Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#28. A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.

Valerie Solanas

#29. God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Ralph Ellison

#30. Ladies, no matter how hard you try, a man will never complete you. Only God can. And if you don't know your identity in Him, you'll be lost forever.

Deborah N. Kabwang

#31. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

Khaled Hosseini

#32. Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can't hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn't me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity.

Julie Farrell

#33. Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

Sara Sheridan

#34. Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.

Harley King

#35. The things that make us human: freedom, art, choice, identity, expression, love. And

Adam Johnson

#36. Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.

Mark Buchanan

#37. In the ritual of baptism, our ancestors acted out the bizarre truth of the Christian identity: We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love. There

Rachel Held Evans

#38. I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

Talulah Riley

#39. You know I'm the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man, showing everybody it's okay to be yourself. Embrace yourself. Embrace your health. Ayyy! Just continue to love yourself and accept.

Brandon McCartney

#40. Your security and love of life don't depend on the presence of another, but only on yourself, your chosen work, and your developing identity. Then you can safely choose to enrich your life by marrying another person, and not, as e e cummings says, until.

Sylvia Plath

#41. There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

Alexander Theroux

#42. God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?

C.J. Anderson

#43. 'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what was stolen from him years earlier by assuming the identity of a sheriff. I guess you could say it's an explosive action drama - sit down, strap in, and enjoy the ride!

Antony Starr

#44. Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.

David Blankenhorn

#45. how lovers alter in the glance of each other, that space where their moods are accepted and their surrender is never taken advantage of.

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

#46. I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I've never been that pretty girl, and I wouldn't want to be.

Erin O'Connor

#47. Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge.

Gilles Deleuze

#48. A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

Auliq Ice

#49. To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.

Terry Eagleton

#50. Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.

Rob Bell

#51. Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search
for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

Warren Farrell

#52. You should have a kind heart because you are not just a so and so person,you are also an identity who is part of the almighty god,who above all likes kindness because,he is the bestower of all desired attributes but is benevolently looking for kindness from his creation

Jaspreet Kaur

#53. Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

Eddie Trunk

#54. I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one's bones.

J.M. Coetzee

#55. Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

Mary J. Blige

#56. I was raised to respect women, and I really like them to be strong, independent, and have their own identity. My parents are still together, and I grew up with a lot of love, and I feel that kids imitate what they have at home.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#57. He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

Charlotte Bronte

#58. I mean we might even go to war as to whether we love Coke or Pepsi and our whole identity is wrapped up in that choice. You know, for the Russians they felt that these minor differences between these various sodas was just hyped up and irrelevant.

Sheena Iyengar

#59. Dimension, Existence, Culture and Identity all splinter and are left behind.
Pink Sound, brothers and sisters. Pinkness. It's dark. It's... flat. It is unexplainable... it is peaceful... it is love...
...it is...

Gus Van Sant

#60. The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.

Stephen Knapp

#61. We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

H. Rider Haggard

#62. Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am,
my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court

Jeremy Lin

#63. I know my name now. Love Warrior. I came from Love and I am Love and I will return to Love. Love casts out fear. A woman who has recovered her true identity as a Love Warrior is the most powerful force on earth. All the darkness and shame and pain in the world can't defeat her.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#64. I tell you, love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You'll never - I promise - regret it. Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives toward us, generously and graciously, even when we're at our worst. Our Father is kind; you be kind.

Eugene H. Peterson

#65. Fate was cruel to play this trick on her, although if she were honest she knew she only had herself to blame. She had taken the chance and now she had to pay the price.

Emily Arden

#66. I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.

Erin Heatherton

#67. I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Jared Kushner

#68. Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

Shannon Mullen

#69. Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.

Toni Sorenson

#70. There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once you move your identity to that level of deep inner contentment, you will realize you are drawing upon a Life that is much larger than your own and from a deeper abundance.

Richard Rohr

#71. I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#72. We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

Donella Meadows

#73. We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.

Patti J. Smith

#74. Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection.

Don DeLillo

#75. Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

Lizzy Plapinger

#76. But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and the reconciliation, the love and the doubting of love, the judgment and then the coming together again, that we find our own identity and define our relationships.

Ann Patchett

#77. For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions ... until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

Anouk Aimee

#78. I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment.. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

Dolly Parton

#79. All that time, my fears - about identity and family and love - were misplaced. It isn't acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakens us.

Eddie Huang

#80. don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don't belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the fringe. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me - they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. I

Veronica Roth

#81. Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#82. People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.

Ashly Lorenzana

#83. What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.

Alain Badiou

#84. Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

John Lahr

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

Humberto Maturana

#86. Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.

Jaeda DeWalt

#87. Then August knew. Thomas didn't dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn't know what it was to be afraid. He knew he could get what he wanted, never questioning his identity or who he would be the next day.
He was everything August wasn't, and that's why August hated him.

Kris Noel

#88. 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 Bronte

#89. If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

Judah Smith

#90. In friendship you are free, you don't hurt much. But love when comes to hurt hollows your identity, peace, mind and body so intensely making blank mind.

Sadashivan Nair

#91. I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

Trevor Noah

#92. All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be played in front of an audience of people we know and love, would cause us to shrivel in shame

Alice Pung

#93. This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Peter Kreeft

#94. I want to
peel away all the labels
I had once given to others
and place them
upon the fabric
of my own identity.

They have reflected back to me,
everything that I refuse
to See in myself.

Meraaqi

#95. Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone ...
Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Brennan Manning

#96. I am a lover born to love each part and parcel of the universe with my deep intense emotions. I love to connect with the world and each connection enriches my existence as it blends in my identity.

Harshada Pathare

#97. My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

Jenny Eclair

#98. The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Robert Grudin

#99. 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 Roth

#100. You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.

Katie Dale