Who You Are Quotes - Page 15

• How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Men, Honor, Dresses

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.80, Vintage

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• Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home.

  Melody Beattie

  Life, Home, Sadness

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• Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Choices, Remember Who You Are, Want

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• Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Ideas, Ego

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.87, Hay House, Inc

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• Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Baby, Remembers Everything

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• I'm Magnus Bane." he went on in a soothing tone, stretching out his ringed hands. Blue sparks had begun to dance between them like bioluminescence dancing water. "I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was comming?" "I know who you are, but..." Maia looked dazed. "You look so... so... shiny.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blue, Hands, Dancing

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• I genuinely believe that we will look back on today as a landmark for equality in Britain ... No matter who you are and who you love, we are all equal. Marriage is about love and commitment, and it should no longer be denied to people just because they are gay.

  Nick Clegg

  Believe, Commitment, Gay

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• What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

  Alain de Botton

  Vision, Use, Snob

  "What's A Kinder Way To Frame Success?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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• I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Hard Work, Native American

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Crazy, Lying, Long

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask: what do you love? ... I know who I am, she thought, taking his hand and turning to the altar. I am Tatiana. And I believe in, and hope for, and love Alexander for life.

  Paullina Simons

  Believe, Who I Am, Hands

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• Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fall, Law, Two

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• Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

  Don DeLillo

  Running, Strong, Fall

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.

  Cassandra Clare

  Faults, Blame, Blaming Yourself

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.657, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.

  Emma Bunton

  Acting, Action, Make The Best Of It

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• Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

  Ted Rall

  Love, Friendship, Want

  Ted Rall (1998). “Revenge of the latchkey kids: an illustrated guide to surviving the 90s and beyond”, Workman Publishing

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• It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.

  Elizabeth Scott

  People, Bullshit, Labels

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• It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

  Holly Black

  Past, Different, Constructs

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge

  J.R. Ward

  Falling In Love, Love You, Showing Up

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1863, Penguin

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• You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Needs, Apologizing, Figures

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• Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Passionate Desire, Identity

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• I can't force you. I can't make you want to survive this." He pulls me against him and runs his hand over my hair, tucking it behind my ear. His fingers trail down my neck and over my shoulder, and he says, "But you will do it. It doesn't matter if you believe you can or not. You will, because that's who you are.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Believe, Hair

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• I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.

  Veronica Roth

  Tobias, Needed, Knows

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• The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

  Deepak Chopra

  Forever, Soul, Be Who You Are

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