Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

- Erich Fromm

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

- Parker J. Palmer

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

- Joseph Campbell

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

- Parker J. Palmer

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me.

- Wilma Mankiller

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

- Parker J. Palmer

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

- Blaise Pascal

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

- Abraham Maslow

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

- Pablo Picasso

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

- Anne Sexton

I am a woman above everything else.

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

- Houssaye

All the world is a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and entrances;
Each man in his time plays many parts.

- William Shakespeare