My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
Wendell BerryTag: identity leisure work technology calling
Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.
Miguel SyjucoTag: identity
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy.
(pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")
Tag: politics identity community commonwealth
The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names... Its caravans, those strange rambling feasts and cultures, left nothing behind, not an ember. All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.
Michael OndaatjeTag: identity desert nationality
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte BrontëTag: empowerment gender women freedom identity integrity self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image
Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.
Hugo HamiltonTag: identity self-discovery growth character
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.
Hugo HamiltonTag: innocence past future growing-up history identity self-discovery growth character maturity personality personal-history heritage predispositions
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
Henry David ThoreauTag: identity self-knowledge voice
In spite of the three hours I spent combing over the details, I have, to this day, a very persistent certainty that hidden inside me is the revolting knowledge of days when I wasn't quite myself. I now suspect that my inexplicable bouts of exhaustion are due to the massive effort of keeping those days behind me.
Tony BurgessI am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of the classroom and the stifling reality beyond it, which I must do for survival and self-respect. I am a commuter between what I am now and what I was and would like to be and it is this commuting at lightning speed, at the oddest hours, that has done havoc to me.
F. Sionil JoséTag: identity
« prima precedente
Pagina 14 di 55.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.