Who We Are Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

  Jack LaLanne

  Why Not, Matter, Life Is

  Jack Lalanne (2008). “Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness and Finance: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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• That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Running, Successful, Stuff

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• The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.

  Chris Abani

  Fashion, Wall, Home

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

  David Richo

  Mean, Psychology, Healthy

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• The problem facing humanity today is not a political problem; it's not a financial problem; it's not a military problem. It's obviously a spiritual problem. That is, it has to do with what we believe to be true about who we are, where we are, why we are where we are, and what are we doing on the Earth. What is the purpose of life itself? What we need right now are leaders or models, people who will stand up and not only help to write a cultural story, but help to model it in the way that they interact with each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Military, Believe

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Moving, Self

  "In the Meantime". Book by Iyanla Vanzant, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Relationship, Space

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• All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Needs, Insight, Live Well

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• Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

  Howard Behar

  Honesty, Want, Clarity

  Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.19, Penguin

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• What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Believe, Reflection, Choices

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• 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

  Mean, Doe, Actresses

  "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

  Debbie Ford

  Inspired, Excited, States

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• It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.

  Taylor Schilling

  Wrinkles, Order, Bravery

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• 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

  Cost, Knows, Has Beens

  David McCullough (2007). “Brave Companions”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Weather, Feelings, World

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.

  Hope Solo

  Jobs, Taken, Loss

  "Interview with Hope Solo, USWNT and St Louis Athletica Goalkeeper". Interview with L.E. Eisenmenger, sportslens.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

  Hope Solo

  Struggle, Reality, Should

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• History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Fashion, Memories, Past

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