“Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.” IfsYoungDifficultChallengesPowerfulIdentityEthicsStayingCommandmentsRailChasteDifficult ChallengesYoung Life Book:Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America Source: Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
“Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.” IfsDifficultViewsIdentityComfortableConceptsShakesSomething NewDifficult Times Author:Mercedes Ruehl
“Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we were doing a workshop. And I said, 'Oh, just be yourself'. And he said to me, 'I don't know who that is, I'm an actor'. And I begin to realise in fact that we seek identity because we're told we should have one, but I wonder whether it's necessary.” KnowsShouldSaidFactsTodayActorsDifficultWonderIdentityOne DayShould HaveTheatreBeing YourselfRealisingDifficult ThingsWorkshopsJust Be Yourself Author:George Ogilvie
“The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.” KnowsLifeMindDreamSpiritualDifficultLosesFreedomStruggleIdentityWho You AreStriveSeekingAbsenceBoundariesFullnessSeekersDifficult ThingsIdentificationDreams You HaveSeparatenessSpecialnessUnbound Author:Adyashanti
“I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.” IfsKnowsLooksIndividualDifficultImagineIdentityAbsolutesIndividualityImagine ThatPersonal Identity Author:John Banville
“A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.” PersonsRealDifficultAliveIdentityDependsShapesReal LifeAuthenticityIdenticalDepositsSelf Identity Author:Max Frisch
“My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.” ProblemFormDifficultCommunityChildhoodIdentityFootballEnjoymentExaggeration Author:Orhan Pamuk