“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
“Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.” CertainLanguageOpinionRightsGroupsIdentityNotionSaltRejectedExclusiveEnglish LanguageQuaint Author:Ilana Mercer
“Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.” PeopleChristianFatherOpinionIdentityFitExpectationsRealizationToneCrippled Book:Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation Source: Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation
“If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.” IfsSelfOpinionSelf EsteemIdentitySourceAmountInvolvedProjectsFoundationBoundsEsteemInevitableSooner Or LaterComes And GoesUnstableUnreliableBatteredMarkersOthers OpinionsInevitable ChangeMoney Comes And Goes Author:Dalai Lama
“You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.” PeopleThinkingPersonsSelfDifferencesOpinionIdentityDetermineAbout YourselfSelf IdentityBe Your Own Person Author:Amy Tan
“The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.” MenNeedsDoeSelfRealityOpinionIdentityAmountLimitsToleranceAbsurdRecognitionVarietyTransparentUnthinkableSelf IdentityPluralismPluralism Is Author:Raimon Panikkar