There is only one fundamental question in life:
"Who am I?"
-David Frawley

I mean, we're all trying to find out
who the hell we are, aren't we?
-Robert Ludlum

One of the tragedies of our life
is that we keep forgetting who we are.
-Henri Nouwen

What is your trouble?

Mistaken identity.

-Wei Wu Wei

The most important question
you can ever ask yourself is Who am I?
-Gangaji

The real meditation is...the meditation on one's identity.
Ah voila? une chose!!
You try it. You try finding out why you're you
and not somebody else.
And who in the blazes are you anyway?
Ah, voila? une chose!
-Ezra Pound

Who in the world am I?
Ah, that's the great puzzle.
-Lewis Carroll

God, who am I?
-Sylvia Plath

Trying to define yourself
is like trying to bite your own teeth.
-Alan Watts

As long as there is a "who" asking the questions,
that "who" will continue to remain puzzled.
-Ramesh Balsekar

Adventure most unto itself
The soul condemned to be -
Attended by a single Hound
Its own identity.
-Emily Dickinson

Who are we, who is each one of us,
if not a combination of experiences,
information, books we have read, things imagined?
-Italo Calvino

Who are we but the stories
we tell ourselves, about ourselves,
and believe?
-Scott Turow

Your thought patterns and beliefs
are stories that you've been telling for a lifetime.
Storyteller, who are you?
Without the stories, what are you?
-Josh Baran

Without the story of the past,
who are you in this timeless present?
Without a projection of an imagined future,
who are you now?
-Josh Baran

Love is who we are without our stories.
-Byron Katie

Deciding...what to remember

is how we decide who we are.

-Robert Pinsky

You are not your cluster of memorized ideas 

about yourself.

-Vernon Howard

The only obstacle
to realizing the truth about who you are
is thinking who you are.
-Gangaji

You have no free will regarding who you are.
You are that fully and completely.
But you do have free will
regarding the powers of mind and imagination.
You can play as if you are not who you are.
You can play as if you almost are, but still not quite.
You can play any number of variations and permutations
of choosing or denying who you  are.
-Gangaji

Waking up to who you are
requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.
-Alan Watts

For the question "Who am I?'
a practical answer is "You are who you decide to be."
-Serge Kahili King

An identity would seem to be arrived at
by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
-James Baldwin

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

You cannot perform in a manner
inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
-Zig Ziglar

It is not possible to turn away from something
if you are unconsciously identified with it.
It is not possible because you believe you are it
in a way that is deeper than your awareness of that moment.
It is your ground.
You cannot disidentify with your ground.
First you have to become aware of it,
then your awareness will be deeper than it.
-A. H. Almaas

A man's ethnic identity
has more to do with a personal awareness
than with geography.
-William Saroyan

The value of identity of course
is that so often with it comes purpose.
-Richard Grant

To possess or be possessed by
one's own identity?
-Theodore Roethke

We are dominated by everything with which we are identified,
and we have dominion over everything from which we disidentify.
-Roberto Assagioli

Define yourself
based on a point of view you care deeply about.
-Tom Chappel

You have your identity
when you find out,
not what you can keep your mind on,
but what you can't keep your mind off.
-A. R. Ammons

We bind our identities to things
as a means of strengthening identity,
but as the identity feeds off its projection,
it must eventually give up and released that projection.
-John Sandbach

Through others,
I am somebody.
-African Proverb

We should not define ourselves
by how others define us.
-Deng Ming-Dao

Who can give a man this,
his own name?
-Geroge MacDonald

Identity is such a crucial affair
that one shouldn't rush into it.
-David Quammen

How you slice up your time
also reflects how you identity yourself.
-Iris Sanguiliano

To discover who you are -
you must first discover who you are not.
-Nisargadatta

Are you this?
Can you identify yourself with this?
Can you satisfy yourself with this?
Is this all that you wish?

No, I want no more of it.
This does not belong to me,
I am not this, this is not my self.
-Julius Evola

An accurate definition of the self is impossible.
You are more than you realize, more than you can define.
And the more time you spend trying to nail down the definition,
the less time you spend living right now.
-George Lawrence-Ell

I don't like defining myself.
I just am.
-Britney Spears

Rivers flow.
The sea sings.
Oceans roar.
Who am I?

A small pebble
On a giant shore;
Who am I to ask who I am?

Isn't it enough to be?
-American Indian

Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
-R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't trace out your profile -
forget your side view -
all that is outer stuff.
Look for your other half
who walks always next to you
and tends to be who you aren't.
-Antonio Machado

In the manifest dimension,
ego identity is the root of life,
and if that ego identity is lost,
then life as we know it no longer exists.
-Niranjanananda Saraswati

If a drop of water falls into the sea,
is it a drop which gives its name to the sea
or the sea to the drop of water?
-Rodney Collin

Any life is made up of a single moment,
the moment in which a man finds out,
once and for all, who he is.
-Jorges Luis Borges

There is going to be no answer.
It is only that the question will dissolve.
There is not going to be an answer that
"You are this".
Only the question will dissolve.
There will be no one to ask even "Who am I?"
And then you know.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"

Only once have I been made mute. 

It was when a man asked me, "Who are you?"

-Kahlil Gibran

No one remains quite what he was
when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann

No one can say he is himself,
until first he knows that he is,
and then what himself is.
In fact, nobody is himself,
and himself is nobody.
-George MacDonald

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?
-Emily Dickinson

On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks,
he had to question himself in a different context
and ask the same old question as before, "Who am I?",
and the answer now came more emphatically than ever before,
"No one."
But a no-one with a crown of light about his head.
-R. S. Thomas

Never identify
except with your Higher Self.
-Sivananda Radha

Once you accept the concept of a Higher Self, a soul, or inner Light,
there is really nothing else with which you can identify.
-Sivananda Radha

Who are you?
Recognize the Buddha nature.
-Zen Saying

The identification is raised above the level of imagery...
to the level of cosmic Light.
-Sivananda Radha