#identity

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#fragile #fragile thing #human #identity #moments

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#balance #confirmation #face #friends #i

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#find #how #i #identity #individual

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#any #army #back #been #before

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#happy #i #identity #job #journalist

The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living? ↗

— Christopher John Farley

#life

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american #american revolution #around #came #concept

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#identity #nation #nationalism #politics #political

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#clique #first #generation #group #identity

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius