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"Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world."
"I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are."
"I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity."
"Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity."
"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."
"Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life."
"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity."
"Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God."
"It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are."
"To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life."
"Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life."
"That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is."
"Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them."
"As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity."
"Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change."
"Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity"
"Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal."
"There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom to sort of explore who you want to be. So I think it's kind of something we're stuck with as long as humans are the way we are."
"It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!"
"Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human."
