Identity Quotes

Being a sex symbol isn’t cool unless you’re in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

I was a Republican until they lost their minds.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

I’m an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals – from common navigation toward a star.