“For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at that only in a negative way. You wanted to give your heart to others, and you did so quickly and easily. But now you are being asked to let go of all these self-made props and trust that God is enough for you. You must stop being a pleaser and reclaim your identity as a free self.”
Henri Nouwen
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”
Kevin Arnold
“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
Don Delillo
“Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them.”
Robert Terwilliger
“Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.”
Erich Fromm
