Who We Are Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Want, Matter, Privacy

  Edward Snowden’s Christmas speech to the U.K., www.dailydot.com. December 25, 2013.

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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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• I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

  August Wilson

  Past, Thinking, Order

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• We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.

  August Wilson

  Thinking, Years, Land

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• If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

  Eduardo Galeano

  Wine, Made, Grapes

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• Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ourselves in a cultural and moral landscape that is disturbingly familiar, yet entirely new. As though granted a new beginning, Marcus renames the creatures of our world, questions who we are and who, as men and women, we might be. Notable American Women is a wonder book, pleasurable and provocative.

  Maureen Howard

  Moving, Book, New Beginnings

  "Notable American Women". Book by Ben Marcuso, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. March 19, 2002.

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• There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

  Rahul Dravid

  Games, People, Fans

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• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

  Antonio Damasio

  Simple, Self, Brain

  "Self Comes To Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• 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

  Reality, Force, Sooner Or Later

  "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.

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• Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent, they tell us who we are and who we should be.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Important, Normalcy, Sexuality

  "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.

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• Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in.

  Tara Moss

  Sex, Needs, Enjoy

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• It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.

  Keith Boykin

  Growing Up, Struggle, Responsibility

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• In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Years, Identity

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Courses

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Street Boys”, p.122, Ballantine Books

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• Worship helps us find who we are and why God has placed us here on the earth. When we bow in God's presence with worship, only then are we made complete.

  Judson Cornwall

  Earth, Bows, Helping

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• For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Perspective, Long, Identity

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• Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.

  John Welwood

  Determination, Dark, Compassion

  John Welwood (1991). “JOURNEY HEART PB”, Harper Perennial

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