#identity

Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story. ↗

— Jacqui Stedmon

#life-story #narrative #perspective #experience

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying. ↗

— Rumi

#identity #love #rumi #shame #love

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#developing #embraces #europe #extension #finds

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#behind #case #does #field #finished

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. ↗

— George McGovern

#case #identity #mistaken #tragic #whole

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#birthplace #come #desperate #himself #identity

History is information. Memory is part of your identity. ↗

— David Miliband

#identity #information #memory #part #your

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#contemporary #defeat #form #greatest #identity

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#arts #background #civilization #contemporary #dark