#identity

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story. ↗

— Kate Morton

#secrets #truths #life

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#philosophy-of-life #life

Family, Lover/Beloved, Friends, Society, Religions, Corporates, political leaders and all other organizations have a subconscious desire to redefine the meaning of an individual's freedom in such a way that he/she becomes a perfect instrument to fulfill their motives. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#inspirational #motivation #self-help #family

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it. ↗

— John Lahr

#love #memory #love

It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper, very much like weather, or the TV schedule. Today the pope is tired. Yesterday, the pope was less tired than he is today. Tomorrow, we expect that the pope will not be so tired as he was today. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#humor #love

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#god #identity #love #art

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#music #music

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#reality #real

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#self-image #sense-of-self #stories #storytelling #story

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#identity #paradox