Who We Are Quotes - Page 2

• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Journey, People

  "Exclusive: Wendell Pierce Discusses His Controversial Role in ‘Four’ (LAFF Premiere Today)". Interview with Jasmin Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. Junuary 15, 2012.

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• With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Understanding, Needs, Way

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• History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

  David McCullough

  History, Way, Navigation

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 13, 2012

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• We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Insecure, Insecurity

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from May 16, 2015

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• I have a new name for pain.
  What's that?
  The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape.
  A good name, then.

  Christopher Paolini

  Strong, Pain, Animal

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1078, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

  Kyle

  Together, Pieces, Shapes

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• It doesn’t matter who we are or where we’ve been, God sent His Son for us – that’s the beauty of the Gospel.

  Heather Hart

  Son, Matter

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• All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?

  Derrick Jensen

  Stars, Salmon, Coyotes

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• No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

  Bob Goff

  Mistake, Book, Stories

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jul 15, 2014

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• What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Order, People

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.32, Anchor

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• Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Self

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• Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

  Chuck Jones

  Want, Bugs

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• When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.

  C. Terry Warner

  Independent, People, Feelings

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• Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human
  condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.

  James Hillman

  Character, Years, Soul

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• Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Impact, Want

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• To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

  A. H. Almaas

  Inspirational, Truth, Real

  A. H. Almaas (2000). “The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

  Alex Haley

  Heritage, Lineage, Hunger

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

  Barack Obama

  People, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

  Carl Sagan

  Philosophical, Perspective, Humanity

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

  John Quincy Adams

  Understanding, Embrace, Made

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• We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Successful, Roles

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• Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ.  This is who we are.  This is our identity.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, Identity

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• Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Spirit, Ends

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Awareness, Vary

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• Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we shloud be asking ourselves all the time? 'What kind of person am I?

  R. J. Palacio

  People, Important, Asking

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.60, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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