Who We Are Quotes - Page 21

• We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.

  Gay Hendricks

  Regret, Past, Energy

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• There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

  Deepak Chopra

  Light, Light Within, Forget

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• This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Air, Games

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• The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

  Colin Powell

  Terrorist, One Thing

  "Powell: Don't Let Terrorism Change 'Who We Are'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Views, World, Ability To Love

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• Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Dream, Dark, Dark Thoughts

  Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.284, Macmillan

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• Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Knowing, Agony

  1964 Leduc. Incident at Vichy, act1.

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• How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

  R. D. Laing

  Giving, Our Actions, Praxis

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• If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Passing On, People, Generations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

  James Heckman

  Giving, Way, Possibility

  "It Pays to Invest in Early Education Says a Nobel Economist Who Boosts Kids’ IQ". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. February 22, 2013.

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• Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham. We are here upon the earth at this time to magnify the priesthood and to preach the gospel. That is who we are, and that is why we are here - today and always.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Promise, Identity

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• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

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• The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

  Bill Vaughan

  Healing, Health, Simple

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• Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

  Marianne Williamson

  Careers, Personality, Achievement

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• This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.

  Barack Obama

  War, Mean, Law

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• We are not our body, that we have a body, but a body is not who we are. We are that which possesses a body, and that which stands outside of the body, if you please, and exists quite apart and independent from it, and uses the body as a device or tool.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Independent, Tools, Use

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

  David Bezmozgis

  Thinking, Doe, Guides

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

  Tim Heidecker

  Book, Eric, Gazing

  "Tim and Eric Are Bringing Down Scientology With Jokes". Interview with Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

  Michael Patrick King

  Baby, Falling In Love, Mistake

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• America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

  Faith Popcorn

  America, United States, Popcorn

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.13, BookBaby

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• We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

  Merle Shain

  Marriage, Growing Up, Night

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Believe, Feelings, Listening

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• the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

  Jenny Lawson

  Want, Today, Imperfect

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• Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

  Alison Lurie

  Talking, Clothes, Bed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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