Who We Are Quotes

• 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

  People, Helping, Form

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• What we do flows from who we are.

  Charles Colson

  Inspirational, Environmental, Flow

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• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Peace, Lying

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.46, Penguin

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• It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

  Carl Jung

  Famous Inspirational, Deeds, Action

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Situation

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• The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

  John Perkins

  Fate, Choices, Twists

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were.

  Dale G. Renlund

  Care, Becoming

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• We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

  Katherine Center

  Struggle, Faces

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• We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

  Lil B

  Life And Love, Live Life, People

  "Lil B Talks Getting Sucker Punched, Gay Rumors, & Drake Envy". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 10, 2010.

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• We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

  Keanu Reeves

  Moments, Certain, Picks

  "Q&A: Keanu Reeves on Making His First Movie, Man of Tai Chi". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

  David Levien

  Running, Destiny, Our Destiny

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• Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity

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• Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can achieve. We should all have the right to express ourselves, all have the right to be heard, all have the right to be what we can be: To reach for the sky and touch the stars. No matter who we are, no matter whether we are man or woman, or rich or poor:
  My voice, my right. My voice counts.

  Desmond Tutu

  Stars, Men, Rich Or Poor

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• We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Accepting, Myth, Walks

  Natalie Goldberg (2005). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

  David McCullough

  History, Way, Navigation

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 13, 2012

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• It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Wisdom, Sometimes

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• The future gets no say in who we are.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Future, Fate, Destiny

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• I have a new name for pain.
  What's that?
  The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape.
  A good name, then.

  Christopher Paolini

  Strong, Pain, Animal

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1078, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story.  We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death.  We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Age, Needs, Stories

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.4, Anchor

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• 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

  Understanding, Needs, Way

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• God's Love is UNCONDITIONAL, which means that it has absolutely nothing to do with us. Thankfully, God doesn't love us for who we are, but because of WHO HE IS.

  David J. Stewart

  Inspiration, Mean, Love Is

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• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Journey, People

  "Exclusive: Wendell Pierce Discusses His Controversial Role in ‘Four’ (LAFF Premiere Today)". Interview with Jasmin Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. Junuary 15, 2012.

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• We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Insecure, Insecurity

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from May 16, 2015

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• All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?

  Derrick Jensen

  Stars, Salmon, Coyotes

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