Who We Are famous quotes
04-17-2025
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To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
-- A. H. Almaas -
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
-- Adam Braun -
We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.
-- Adyashanti -
Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.
-- Aidan of Lindisfarne -
the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that
-- Alanis Morissette -
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
-- Alex Haley -
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
-- Alex Haley -
I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?
-- Alexandra Potter -
What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
-- Alice Steinbach -
This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
-- Allen West -
God uses us in spite of who we are, not because of it.
-- Andrew Wommack -
When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.
-- Angeles Arrien -
Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
-- Anita Hill -
I understood that at the core, our essence is made of pure love. We are pure love-every single one of us. How can we not be, if we come from the Whole and return to it? I knew that realizing this meant never being afraid of who we are. Therefore, being love and being our true self is one and the same thing!
-- Anita Moorjani -
In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together.
-- Anita Moorjani -
What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.
-- Anita Moorjani -
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.
-- Anna Funder -
But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.
-- Anna McPartlin -
There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
-- Anthony Marra -
It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
-- Austin Kleon -
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
-- Ayad Akhtar -
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
-- Barbara Kruger -
When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.
-- Beth Moore -
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
-- Bill Crawford -
We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.
-- Bill Laimbeer -
What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling
-- Bob Hoskins -
What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.
-- Bob Taft -
Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.
-- Brad Meltzer -
All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
What we know matters but who we are matters more.
-- Brené Brown -
Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.
-- Brené Brown -
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
-- Brené Brown -
Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.
-- Carl Sagan -
I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.
-- Carl Sagan -
Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
-- Carla Gugino -
You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.
-- Carnie Wilson -
Why do I live in Israel? Because Israel lives in me, as it lives in all Jews. It is who we are. And those of us lucky enough to recognize this truth and embrace it in all its fullness and depth are the luckiest Jews in the world.
-- Caroline Glick -
People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.
-- Cassandra King -
Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
-- Cate Blanchett -
God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.
-- Charlie Fletcher -
It's really nice to have someone who's intelligent and articulate to talk to about what you're doing, because it's a big part of who we are.
-- Chris Pratt -
We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.
-- Christine Downing -
Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way.
-- Christine Kane -
Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.
-- Christopher Barzak -
He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.
-- Christopher McDougall -
Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end
-- Christopher Paolini -
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
-- Chuck Jones -
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.
-- Colin Quinn -
God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were.
-- Dale G. Renlund -
Who we are is really defined by the work we put out.
-- David Berkowitz -
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
-- David Bezmozgis -
What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.
-- David F. Wells -
Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
-- David Frawley -
We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us....
-- David Levien -
How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
-- David McCullough -
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
-- David McCullough -
God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
-- David Platt -
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.
-- David Shi -
Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.
-- David Weinberger -
We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.
-- Deepak Chopra -
If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Part of knowing ourselves is also being able to accept who we are and to value ourselves regardless of our flaws. Accepting who we are allows us to value our worth without conditions or reservations.
-- Diane Greene -
We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.
-- Dinah Lenney -
Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.
-- Donald Miller -
Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.
-- Donald O. Clifton -
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
-- Douglas Coupland -
Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
-- Ed Miliband -
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
-- Eduardo Galeano -
With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.
-- Edward J. Fraughton -
Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be,
-- Edward Snowden -
No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.
-- Elif Safak -
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
-- Elizabeth Fishel -
Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?
-- Emilio Estevez -
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
-- Emily Giffin -
If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.
-- Emma Watson -
That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.
-- Eric Weiner -
We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.
-- Erin Hunter -
Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
-- Esther Perel -
I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.
-- Eva Longoria -
That’s not who we are as a nation, and let me tell you why: Because the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s flipping burgers—she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.
-- Eva Longoria -
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
-- Frances Moore Lappé -
Who we are looking for is who is looking.
-- Francis of Assisi -
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
-- Fred Rogers -
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
-- Fred Rogers -
Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
-- Geoffrey Jellicoe
