Labels Quotes

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.

~ Ben Marcus

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of green?

~ Stan Brakhage

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels and images.

~ Eckhart Tolle

People, places and experiences aren’t meant to be labeled and judged, they are meant to be loved and appreciated, since deep down inside, the nature we all share is love, light and happiness.

~ Luminita D. Saviuc

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Living your life through negative feelings and memories is doing yourself a dishonour.If you want to change you need to be willing to leave your past wounds behind you. -If you wish to remain stuck in your attachment to past pains then dare to ask yourself exactly why you feel the need to define yourself by your past traumas or tragedies.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

I do not care what I labeled, as long as I am heard.

~ Hannah Sawyerr

When we accept the labels placed on us by ourselves and others, we then restrict and limit ourselves based on those labels. Break free from them and reclaim your unlimited potential to be your amazing self.

~ Nanette Mathews

The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.

~ Ben Marcus

You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree to diagnose people. We all have crazy running through our blood and so many things trigger that. We all struggle with our anxiety and twisted issues. Defamation of character is not kind, nor Christlike. Because when you label people with self righteous vindication you open the door to the very idea that self righteousness is itself a disorder that we should all be afraid of. This doorway when left open too long gets people to pull away from Christ, not run to him.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, it is easier for people to believe lies then deal with the uncomfortableness of their own fear of action. These type of people feel uncomfortable unless everyone is the same or God presents them with what is easy and obvious. It is a life long coping mechanism for the greatest fear of all--regret.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.Anger was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

~ Barry Lyga

Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels

~ Cherise Sinclair

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

~ John Morley

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you study the wrongs you have committed before you study the wrongs done to you, you have no choice but to label yourself inherently evil, and be forced to dissociate emotionally to avoid the horrible pain in this lie.

~ Daniel Mackler

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

~ Glenn Beck

What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.

~ William Shakespeare

I was ecstatic when they re-named French fries as freedom fries. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

~ Johnny Depp

Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.

~ Aisha Mirza

People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a need to execute. And, the only way they are going to achieve that is to make their body run faster, jump higher, and move quicker.If more fat kids were chosen first for activities and sports and group/team dynamics, they would automatically start to change their lives to fit into the expectations that surround those moments. Any time a child is picked last, they know it’s because people expect the least of them, and so they never actually have a need to rise above that.

~ Dan Pearce

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

~ John Berger

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a label than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

~ Erin Gruwell

Your labels don’t limit me… they limit your experience of me.

~ Steve Maraboli

At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?

~ Patricia Highsmith

And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you’ve been assigned by people who might love you, but don’t really know who you are anymore.

~ Penny Reid

Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

~ Stephenie Meyer

As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

~ L.m. Montgomery

When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored

~ Oglala Lakota

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

~ Louis L'amour

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

~ Ivan E. Coyote

We tend to treat labels as real, rather than as representations of reality

~ Dewight R. Middleton

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

~ Nick Webb

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

~ Orrin Woodward