self-continuity Quotes

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.

The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.

You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'

I'm a version of the same person.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.

Sure, I do feel I am an ambassador for women's football. But that hasn't changed. It's been like that since I started at eight years old. I'm still me.

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.