Core Identity Quotes

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

My religion is very important to me.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

I've always been a dancer, and I will always be a dancer.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it.

The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of what it's doing. If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

I think what a lot of people see as unique is using different technology or different techniques [to make games], but I feel like, as long as you have a core that's unlike others, that's what 'unique' is.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

Your purpose gave birth to you. It has molded and shaped who you are and what you do. Your purpose is the reason you live and breathe. Your purpose guides your heart, hands, and head. It is alive in you. It is there, within, that you must seek to know it and live it.

As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.