Identity Development Quotes

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion of reality, and it's not healthy for a young person to be considered more special than their peers. So, I would say it hindered my self-esteem but in later years gave me a great perspective that I wouldn't have if I hadn't experienced that.

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

My size wasn't something that I'd ever spent a huge amount of time thinking about - I guess at the age of 17 or 18 you don't.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you.

I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.

I myself am still learning how to be me and that's OK. It can take a really long time to become the person you really want to be. Be who you are. It's the greatest gift we can give to ourselves, our community and our world.

Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.