#identity

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms. ↗

— Gene Luen Yang

#identity #true-to-yourself #freedom

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me. ↗

— Jay London

#because #i #identity #identity theft #me

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #identity #politics #art

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time. ↗

— Robin Wasserman

#digital-identity #digitalization #identity #internet #meta

In trying to find who you are, be less destructive and more constructive. Look at art or whatever your passion is and be productive. ↗

— Nirrimi Joy Hakanson

#identity #life #live #passion #productivity

Jenny couldn't believe herself a multiple. She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some dysfunctional figment of her imagination trying to find a life. Still, she was coming to a realization that accepting who she was would be the jailer's key to liberate her from this cuckoo's nest. ↗

— Judy Byington

#dissociative-identity-diroder #mpd #multiplicity #multipple-personality-disorder #trauma-experiences

You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about ↗

— Heath Sommer

#life

Materialism is an identity crisis. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life-struggles #materialism #life

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. ↗

— Sallust

#dislikes #firmest #friendship #identity #likes

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do ↗

— John Green

#identity #john-green #life #popularity #purpose