Jo Swinson Quotes

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

Identity is something that you are constantly earning.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

I feel like I am what I am.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.