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“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

Life Giving Humans Spiritual Mother Born Human Beings Identity Birth Conviction Cholera One Hundred Years Of Solitude Birth Life

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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.”

Giving Self Secret Sacrifice Dying Identity Forgetfulness Self Sacrifice Secret Life Agape Self Giving Agape Love Self Forgetfulness Jesus Shock

Author:Peter Kreeft

“The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).”

“I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.”

People Ifs Knows Want Giving Feels Doe I Can Ends Self Matter Stories Problem Spiritual Fate Identity Ego Sorry Definitions Treated Therapists Sad Story Treated Unfairly

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.”

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.”

“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.”

Giving Humanity Names Individual Lost Hurt Groups Identity Giving Up Bigger Drinking Killing Sake Surrender Toxic Allegiance

Author:George Carlin

“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.”

People Life Giving Form Groups Identity Loyalty Loyal Group Identity

Author:Veronica Roth

“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.”

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.”

World Giving Seems Found Generations Teaching Self Esteem Example Identity Training Ill Philosopher Esteem Etc Preaching Future Generation Identification Mentally Ill

Author:Alfred Korzybski

“When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.”

Ifs Giving Character Identity Integrity Conscience Shoulders Hypocrisy Snakes

Author:Elvis Presley

“I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.”

People Giving Feels Made Girl Identity Give Me Athlete Tennis Shy Shyness

Author:Chris Evert

“To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.”

Needs Giving Time Ability Practice Virtue Identity Needed Offers Prejudice Possession Limitation Assistance Those In Need

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Believe I Can Form Identity Succeed My Way Know Me Constructs Believe You Can

Author:Luigi Pirandello

“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.”

Giving Firsts Desire Community Responsibility Generations Century Loneliness Identity Duty Members Despair Ethics Lonely Weak Sick Twenties Noble Solidarity Our Generation Persecuted

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition.”

People Want Giving Stills Values Passion Justice Greater Identity Dignity Slavery Dear Human Rights Love Life Contempt Humiliation My Passion Turkish Inquisition I Love Life

Book:Writings from Prison

Source: Writings from Prison

“Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?'”

Knows Needs Giving Persons Ideas Identity Quiet Giving Up Crucial Doubted

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not yet been achieved in reality...Preferences tend to attack one form of discrimination with another...Affirmative action encourages a victim-focused identity, and sends the message that there is more power in our past suffering than in our present achievements.”

“I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.”

Ifs Giving Care Jobs Parent Saws Identity Take Care Customers Brands Brokers Clout

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.”

Ifs Want Giving Firsts Book Character Wanted Challenges Roles Identity Hero Gay Expectations Give Me Victim Gender Genre If I Could Stereotype Gender Roles Believable Sidekicks

Author:Lynn Flewelling

“Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.”

Giving Made Two Facts Stories Remember Three Belief Social Community Differences Fiction Steps Generations Identity Roots Locals Purity Fabric Wholeness Three Generations

Book:Sweetness in the Belly

Source: Sweetness in the Belly

“The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.”

People Men Giving Destiny Identity Conflict Israel Palestinian National Identity Arafat

Author:Yasser Arafat

“I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.”

Thinking Giving Team Feet Identity Stronger Blame Fundamentals Lays Teamwork Strict Day To Day Bakers Inspirational Team

Author:Billy Corgan

“Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.”

Giving Littles Self Sometimes Seems Felt Change Cases Identity Desert Garments Robes Power To Change

Author:James A. Baldwin

“When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another.”

“If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Persons Mother Identity

Book:Your Maternity Leave

Source: Your Maternity Leave

“A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership.”

Giving Feelings Together Strong Social Grows Community Leader Movement Identity Habit Weak Endure Ties Neighborhood Ownership Acquaintance Participants Clans New Habits

Author:Charles Duhigg

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