Quotes relating to Identity

The following quotes came as a collaboration between nature-based therapy professionals.
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Identity

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

― Haim G. Ginott

“A dreamer is one who can find his way only by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

― Oscar Wilde

“The reward for conformity is that everybody likes you except yourself.”

― Rita Mae Brown

“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.”

― Oscar Wilde

“Do not be satisfied with stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”

 -Rumi

“The priviledge of a lifetime is being who you are”

 -Joseph Campbell

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change” 

-Carl Rogers

“The biggest risk: to trust that these conditions are all that I need to be myself” 

-Han Hung (8th century Chinese Poet)

“Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” 

--Dr. Seuss

“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” 

-William Shakespeare

“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you already are a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You only have to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

-Osho

“If we were all to sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would all laugh at each other for lack of originality.”

-Kahlil Gibran