Who We Are Quotes - Page 7

• As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.

  Tom Cruise

  Artist, Play, Actors

  "Stanley Kubrick". Interview with Terry Semel and Tom Cruise, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 20, 2012.

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• Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis of what we have, what we do, and who we are better than, and so on - but shift into more reaching out, more service, more kindness, more living the virtues that Lao Tzu spoke about twenty-five hundred years ago.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Years, Always Trying

  Interview with Miro Lipinski, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2017.

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• The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.

  RuPaul

  Spiritual, Color, Dancing

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• I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, Maturity, Stronger

  "Angelina Jolie: 'What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 31, 2015.

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• I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

  Dave Barry

  People, Want, Libertarian

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that.

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, Perfect, Joy

  An Interview with Richard Bach by Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.

  Richard Bach

  Beautiful, Character, Choices

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Spiritual, Voice

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• Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

  Jeff Smith

  Memories, Food, Order

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• Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.

  Wayne Dyer

  Infinite

  "Self-Help Guru Wayne Dyer Dies" by Dominique Mosbergen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2015.

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• We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.

  Wayne Dyer

  Careers, Body, Infinite

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• We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.

  Calvin Miller

  Heart, Self, Forever

  Calvin Miller (2010). “A Hunger for the Holy: Nuturing Intimacy with Christ”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.

  David Finckel

  Ideas, Years, People

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• I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Self, Identity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Kids, Suffering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you study our greatest artists, you will find that they give us a key to understand how to deal with each other, and that our bloodlines are intertwined. It's not hyphenated America. That there is an America, and it is expressed in those arts. It gives us a key to figure out how to negotiate with each other, and it tells us actually who we are.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, America, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which literalism points. That first page is not geology, biology or paleontology; it is high religion. For there we are told who we are in terms of our constititutive text. And if we could understand that, we would worrying about whether the antelopes or the cantaloupes came in a certain order.

  Joseph Sittler

  Order, Worry, Firsts

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• The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Lying, Humanity

  Reagan, Ronald (1989). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1987”, p.682, Best Books on

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• People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Decisions We Make, People

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• When we no longer are afraid of who we are we act from integrity and authenticity.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Integrity, Authenticity

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• In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Writing, Offending, Laughing

  "Writer-director Corbin Bernsen finds a well-matched creative partner in 'Christian Mingle'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. February 2015.

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• Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired, and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Years, Appreciate, Old Friends

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Those of us who don't want to worship an invisible being or spend our days fretting about punishment in Hades do want to be able to share what we hold dear with our families and the broader world, and we want to be understood and appreciated for who we are.

  Greg Epstein

  Punishment, World, Want

  Greg Epstein (2009). “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Desire, Accepting

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