“Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.” IfsWritingBelieveWellsUseMightEnergyOpinionIdentityPureEgoBelieve In YouWillpower Author:William Zinsser
“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.” PeopleWorldFeelsBelieveMadeIdentityCoreAttractiveFakeEmptinessReplacedHollowDetachmentNumbness Author:Douglas Coupland
“I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.” BelieveMeanI BelieveLosesIdentitySellsI Believe InSellingGoodsLoadFloodingOne On One Author:Alexander McQueen
“It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.” PeopleYearsBelieveMeanHas BeensMatterPainI BelieveReligiousPracticeIdentityProudBe ProudTormentObservance Author:Golda Meir
“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'” IfsBelieveHas BeensMotivationalPainStrongPleasureStruggleIdentityBearsWeakEndurePainfulDelightImpressionEaseMisfortunesTormentCould Have BeenPointlessSearch For MeaningInfirmityI Am StrongCorinthiansPainful Experiences Author:Andrew Solomon