#identity

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life. ↗

— George Wald

#body #chasing #fallen #identity #keep

Believe it or not, Dimple–and I would believe it–I am just a regular person who has decided to be who I am in life. That's all. That's how you make your life magical–you take yourself into your own hands and rub a little. You activate your identity. And that's the only way to make, as they say, the world a better place; after all, what good are you to anyone without yourself? ↗

— Tanuja Desai Hidier

#identity #inspirational #inspirational

On its own, my internal dissociated part now came to the surface, and I found myself hiding from everyone. I still was not connecting it to the dream I'd had. At one time I had thought I could control these sudden episodes, but I was apparently mistaken. I had grown very unsure about every facet of my mental health. A disturbed part of me was taking over and I was terrified. I began to wonder if Big Suzie would completely cease to exist. ↗

— Suzie Burke

#consciosness #dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-identity-disorder #multiple-personality-disorder

In order to live a meaningful life, humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These ‘answers’ do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words does not necessarily indicate a lack of understanding, but one has to able to place oneself in the world and build a relatively stable identity. The founding of such an identity is only possible if one can tell a relatively coherent story about who one has been and who one intends to be. ↗

— Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#life

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking. ↗

— George MacDonald

#identity #individuality #creation

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#indiviuality #creation

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#identity #like #song

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members. ↗

— Greg Lake

#become #identity #loose #members #number

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#consequence #global #identity #investment #lose

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#else #identity #immigration #in the past #mexican