“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“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
“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“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
“[Feminism] asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.”
Susan Faludi
“Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.”
Erich Fromm
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