Who We Are Quotes - Page 15

• Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

  Christopher Paolini

  Shapes, Madness, Guides

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1451, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sweet, Stars, Destiny

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Love, Stargirl”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.

  Chris Adrian

  Regret, Blow, Moon

  Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.241, Granta Books

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• Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Names, People

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black

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• What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

  Donald Miller

  Dream, Selfish, Mean

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• Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

  Meg Cabot

  Risk, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from Mar 20, 2013

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• Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Book, Holiday

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• the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.

  Greg Mortenson

  People, World, Lasts

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.41, Penguin

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• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

  Martha Grimes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajhë) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.

  Kate Mosse

  Grief, Believe, Destiny

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• Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

  Christopher Barzak

  Real, Wearing A Mask, Shows

  Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.24, Bantam

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• There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

  Miley Cyrus

  Dream, Might, Sides

  "Can publishing go any lower?" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2009.

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• Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

  Richard Ford

  Secret, Remember, Married

  FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Oct 23, 2016

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• God the Eternal Father did not give [the] first great commandment because He needs us to love Him. His power and glory are not diminished should we disregard, deny, or even defile His name. His influence and dominion extend through time and space independent of our acceptance, approval, or admiration."No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God!"For what we love determines what we seek."What we seek determines what we think and do."What we think and do determines who we are—and who we will become.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Independent, Acceptance

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• He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Essence, Species

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.99, Profile Books

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• Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Today, Tomorrow, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

  Alanis Morissette

  Journey, Knowing, Belief

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• We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.

  Paul Auster

  Simple, Goes On, Opaque

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.249, Faber & Faber

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• Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

  Bell Hooks

  Beloved Community, Differences, Identity

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• We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ties That Bind, Ifs

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• Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

  Ann Brashares

  Long, Despair, Demand

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 12, 2012

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• The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

  Megan McCafferty

  Tales

  Megan McCafferty (2009). “Perfect Fifths: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.130, Broadway Books

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• We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

  Richelle Mead

  Trying, Sometimes

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.208, Penguin

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• I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

  Gena Showalter

  Temptation, Secret, Admitting

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Intertwined”, p.138, Harlequin

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• We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

  Kate Mosse

  Causes

  Kate Mosse (2009). “The Winter Ghosts”, p.160, Hachette UK

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