Who We Are Quotes - Page 19

• I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.

  Tim Gunn

  Art, Believe, People

  "Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work". Book by Tim Gunn, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Unique, Aliens, Process

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• Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Quilts, Feet, Hands

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• Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Self, Suffering

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• "Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Names, Tools, Helping

  "Manuscript Found in Accra". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2012.

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• Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Expression, Doe

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• Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

  Bisco Hatori

  Love Yourself, Cutting, Worry

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• If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

  James Lee Burke

  Tragedy, Skins, Forget

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Stronger, World

  "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead". Book by Brené Brown, September 11, 2012.

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• Approval isn’t necessary. It’s nice when you get it, but it’s not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if I’d have listened to approval, I’d never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if there’s validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.

  Jared Leto

  Nice, Mean, Upset

  FaceBook post by Jared Leto from Jul 26, 2013

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• We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.

  Erin Hunter

  Overcoming, Sometimes, Flaws

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• If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Ideas, Bye

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• At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

  George Clooney

  Positive, Generosity, And Love

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• We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

  Douglas Coupland

  Time, Age, Bitter

  "Girlfriend in a Coma". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1998.

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• Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are.

  Harold Homer Anderson

  Experience, Today, Way

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• History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

  Ken Burns

  Past, History, Defining

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• Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Real, Keys

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.216, Macmillan

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• For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Change, Jobs, Life Changing

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• The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Confidence

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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• So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a concept to come into worship knowing who we are approaching...the absolute fullness of God, pleased to dwell in this Jesus whom we worship. He's already broken the chains...already seated us with Him...already invited us 'into the glorious'.

  Christy Nockels

  Jesus, Knowing, Broken

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• Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

  Ronald Takaki

  Time, Memories, Equality

  "What does it mean to be Asian American? / The passing of Cal Prof. Ronald Takaki, who helped define the term, leads Jeff Yang to reflect on its relevance in the Age of Obama" by Jeff Yang, www.sfgate.com. June 4, 2009.

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• If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Animal, Tools

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

  Barack Obama

  Together, Election, Because Of You

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• What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

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