Who We Are Quotes

• What we do flows from who we are.

  Charles Colson

  Inspirational, Environmental, Flow

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• What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.

  Anita Moorjani

  Trying, Purpose, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Feb 06, 2017

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• Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 09, 2011

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• We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Temptation, Shows, Tempted

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• We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Competition, Words Of Wisdom, Ethics

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• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Peace, Lying

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.46, Penguin

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• We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

  Keanu Reeves

  Moments, Certain, Picks

  "Q&A: Keanu Reeves on Making His First Movie, Man of Tai Chi". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

  Samantha Morton

  Dream, Looks, Want

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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• People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.

  Cassandra King

  People, Helping, Form

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• God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were.

  Dale G. Renlund

  Care, Becoming

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• Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Situation

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• It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

  Carl Jung

  Famous Inspirational, Deeds, Action

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

  John Perkins

  Fate, Choices, Twists

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.

  Julia Hill

  Beautiful, Reality, Light

  "The Legacy of Luna". Book by Julia Butterfly Hill, April 1, 2000.

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• We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

  David Levien

  Running, Destiny, Our Destiny

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• We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

  Katherine Center

  Struggle, Faces

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• It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Wisdom, Sometimes

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• Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can achieve. We should all have the right to express ourselves, all have the right to be heard, all have the right to be what we can be: To reach for the sky and touch the stars. No matter who we are, no matter whether we are man or woman, or rich or poor:
  My voice, my right. My voice counts.

  Desmond Tutu

  Stars, Men, Rich Or Poor

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• Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity

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• We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Accepting, Myth, Walks

  Natalie Goldberg (2005). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

  Lil B

  Life And Love, Live Life, People

  "Lil B Talks Getting Sucker Punched, Gay Rumors, & Drake Envy". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 10, 2010.

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• The future gets no say in who we are.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Future, Fate, Destiny

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• God's Love is UNCONDITIONAL, which means that it has absolutely nothing to do with us. Thankfully, God doesn't love us for who we are, but because of WHO HE IS.

  David J. Stewart

  Inspiration, Mean, Love Is

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• Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story.  We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death.  We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Age, Needs, Stories

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.4, Anchor

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