All Quotes By Tag: Identity

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”

Card image cap - Pascal Mercier,
Tag: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel,

“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me–they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”

Card image cap - Veronica Roth,
Tag: identity, love, loyalty, tris,

“Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you’ll see the worldIf I’m not mistaken…Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure…Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken.”

Card image cap - Neil Gaiman,
Tag: awakening, choice, dance, identity, individuality, life, love, name, pain, pleasure, sleep, treasure,

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

Card image cap - Gabriel García Márquez,
Tag: birth, identity, life, self,

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”

Card image cap - Harvey Fierstein
Tag: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression,

“I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”

Card image cap - Charlotte Brontë,
Tag: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women,