“We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.” GivingShouldPersonsFormOur LivesIdentityStriveDrawingFeaturesCopying Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way
“The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one?s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover.” ThinkingShouldLooksMaySelfLightProcessUnderstandingOur LivesEffectsIdentityComplexesLabelsAnalysisManifestationAbstractComplexityRevelationsWarningSelf AnalysisWarning Labels Book:Three Faces of Power Source: Three Faces of Power
“Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.” ImportantSelfHelpingEmotionStruggleOur LivesIdentityExpressionMusic IsPopsReleaseClichePop MusicSelf ExpressionSoundtracks Author:Sarah Churchwell
“Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.” PeopleThinkingRealOur LivesIdentityInternetFoundationFabricWoven Author:Ruchi Sanghvi
“We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that.” MayMomentsOpportunityTakenOur LivesIdentityDivineMoments In Our Lives Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldTryingHas BeensArtBlackDealsStruggleOur LivesIdentityElementsInvisibleWho We AreIndifferentJust SayingAll BlackBlack Art Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.” PeopleWayWantedPurposeViewsGraceOur LivesIdentityEternalTreats Author:Max Lucado
“Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.” HumanityOur LivesIdentitySourceWeightDivorcedVacuumsHavoc Author:David Kim
“[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.” WayImportantLife IsOur LivesIdentityExpressionCatholicPope Author:John I. Jenkins