Who We Are Quotes - Page 25

• As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Colorless, Loses

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• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• 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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• ...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

  Holly Smale

  Events, Stories, Happens

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• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.

  Tara Brach

  Home, Giving, And Love

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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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• Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

  Eric Dickerson

  Football, Excellence, Doe

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• We all have to show up and do our job regardless of our life circumstances or situations. We don't have to do it with an attitude or whatever but maybe we do that day. Everyone understands that life happens and we have to create a whole other life where our life doesn't even exist. You know, our real life doesn't exist, these characters exist. And that is our life. And that's who we are.

  Queen Latifah

  Jobs, Attitude, Real

  "Queen Latifah, Neil Meron, and Craig Zadan Talk STEEL MAGNOLIAS and How the Lifetime Version Is Different from the Original". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2012.

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• One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

  Russell Banks

  Children, Parent, Want

  "American Spirituality: Tony Campolo and Russell Banks". Interview with Michael Carey, www.abc.net.au. July 19, 2000.

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• It is in the context...of the body in Christ that we understand who we are and where we fit.

  Alistair Begg

  Body, Fit, Christ

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• Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

  James Altucher

  Perception, Brain, Unhappy

  "The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Reinventing Yourself" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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• I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

  Bill Viola

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. 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, Impact

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Fullness

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.4, Random House

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• We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

  Laverne Cox

  Gender, Born

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• Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

  Anthony Marra

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• Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.

  James Carafano

  Memorial Day, War, Struggle

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• Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

  Thomas Keller

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• Be generous with your heart! The more we spontaneously give, the more connected and enriched we will feel. What if we use each other as our living temples, and put our best offering foot forward to see what direction life points us? I believe that if we live in a state of offering - even if we think we have nothing to offer - life blesses us and we feel more at peace with who we are and what we have.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  "The Power of Offering: How Offering Can Instantly Unbind the Heart" by Agapi Stassinopoulos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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