Quotes About Search For Identity

#1. Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

Sherry Turkle

#2. The search for identity in one's youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy.

Victoria Clayton

#3. she was curious to track down that bird, if only to see that it was free. Or, perhaps more accurately, to know that she was free from that desperate search for identity that had imprisoned her. She was now complete, just as she was. So

Ted Dekker

#4. One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

#5. Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language.

Lisa Belkin

#6. What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

Steve Pemberton

#7. [ ... ]And his head is on fire with new things[ ... ]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.

Terry Pratchett

#8. We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

Helen Clark

#9. We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#10. Lately I find myself staring at people's faces ... I find myself frantically searching through the crowds for one face. I don't find that face; I cry inside. Weeping for the identity I know no more.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#11. The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.

Iain Pears

#13. I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.

Linda Goldstein Knowlton

#14. The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#15. 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

#16. To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Melissa Gilbert

#17. What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.

Max Beckmann

#18. When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

Trent Reznor

#19. The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

Haim Ginott

#20. While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

Brennan Manning

#21. Was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity.

Michael J. Fox

#22. I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

Fennel Hudson

#23. Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

Ken Wilber

#24. The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

Raymond Bonner

#25. I found myself when I least expected you- at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only difference was the tea had turned cold, just as life had. And I found myself with an option. I could abandon this tea anytime and make a fresh one. You see?

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#26. Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

William Stringfellow

#27. 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

#28. A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another's path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment

Gary Hopkins

#29. I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

Patsy Cline

#30. I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random ... that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again.
-p150, NOTES TO SELF

Avery Sawyer

#31. We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.

Steven Harrison

#32. Once the ego has found an identity, it does not want to let go. Amazingly but not infrequently, the ego in search of a stronger identity can and does create illnesses in order to strengthen itself through them.

Eckhart Tolle

#33. My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

#34. The idea of reputation, influence, and influencers in the offline world is as old as the hills. It's not new on the web either, but semantic search is creating a portable sense of identity, reputation, and influence that in the days before it simply did not exist. And this is changing everything

David Amerland

#35. Don't try to make any identity of yourself but search for your inner individuality and let it explore.

Nitin Yaduvanshi

#36. The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.

Barack Obama

#37. Find out for yourself your unique features

Sunday Adelaja

#38. What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

John Gardner

#39. What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?

Douglas Coupland

#40. I used to think that being consumed by the questions of my identity and origins made me an inferior person, even as a child.

Mike Chalek

#41. I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

Meg Rosoff

#42. An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.

Peter Sloterdijk

#43. A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.

David Amerland