“you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.” IfsYearsHumansSoulHateHuman BeingsIdentityCircumstancesRootsHatredPrisonSpreadDrivingDestroyedYour SoulBeing YourselfCampsHystericalWarp Author:Irina Ratushinskaya
“Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for.” IfsWantKnownIdentityCircumstancesResponseCooperatingResponsiveness Author:Graham Cooke
“No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.” WorldSelfMatterHardParentIdentityCircumstancesNo Matter WhatSense Of Self Author:Anne Lamott
“Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.” WantGivingArtQualityIdentityParticularCircumstancesGloryInfiniteIndividualityCharacteristicsConcreteEntityHis LoveHere And NowGlory Of God Book:New Seeds of Contemplation Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?” MatterTogetherFictionIdentityCircumstancesOrdinaryNarrativeFragmentsConvenient Author:Ann Leckie
“Broke up created a crisis...in every circumstance because a family gets blown apart. We all know what that does to a child. We all know what that does to a woman's identity. But, at the same time, it caused me to start to reevaluate all those things weren't able to stay intact - all the people's attention, all the success, the financial security. It didn't have any value.” PeopleKnowsChildrenDoeAbleValuesAttentionSecurityIdentityCircumstancesCrisisFinancialBrokeBroke UpFinancial Security Author:Patricia Mauceri
“Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper. Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity, deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?” SufferingEmotionIdentityVictoryCircumstancesBiggerDefeatDeeperSurrender Book:You Are That Source: You Are That
“You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My home is threatened, my job is threatened, my identity is threatened, my world is threatened." And that creates a very particular sort of climate, that is linked.” PeopleThinkingWorldHomeIdentityCircumstances Author:Steve Inskeep
“We've organized human potential and have been better at using human potential better than any country on the face of the Earth. That's because we've recognized that our national creed, our national identity, is that it doesn't matter where you're from, it matters where you're going. You can come from hard circumstances and do great things. We've got to make that true for a whole variety of people who no longer feel that.” PeopleCountryEarthIdentityCircumstancesGreat ThingsVarietyHuman Potential Author:Condoleezza Rice
“They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.” KnowsPersonsSimpleIdentityCircumstancesComfortUnderstoodEmbraceIntimacyDesperateAbandonAllowingFoldsFiberReplicate Author:Christopher Paolini
“Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.” KnowsHas BeensArtSaidCountryStoriesNamesDarkIdentityCircumstancesMereMythMysteriousWorks Of ArtThievesStolenPhantomsTrue Identity Author:Yukiru Sugisaki
“Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.” WorldMeanBlackCommunityIdentityCircumstancesOur FamilyFluidity Author:Bell Hooks