Who We Are Quotes - Page 21

• Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits of that essential relationship- the intimate, fertile conversation between our own heart's wisdom and the way the world has emerged before us- becomes a lifelong practice of deep and sacred listening for the next right thing we are required to do. We make the only choice that feels authentic and honest, necessary and true in that moment.

  Wayne Muller

  Heart, Practice, Choices

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• We are most blessed when we see ourselves as we are seen by [the Savior] and know ourselves as we are known by Him. In this world, we do not really grasp who we are until we know whose we are. The Lord says, 'I will not forget you. I have graven you on the palms of my hands' (see Isaiah 49:15-16). He will never forget us nor our real identity. [And, neither should we ever] forget whose we are. We are His.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Real, Blessed, Hands

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• Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Way, Covering, Needs

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• How we act and dress reflects how we regard where we are and who we are. Let me demonstrate. One of the natural occurrences in missionary work is the change in new converts, especially little boys, young men, and fathers. When they go to Church meetings, they want to look like the missionaries. Now, that tells us a lot about the importance of looking like a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  Harold G. Hillam

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Crazy, Jealous

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• As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Colorless, Loses

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• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.

  Gay Hendricks

  Regret, Past, Energy

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• There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

  Deepak Chopra

  Light, Light Within, Forget

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• This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Air, Games

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• The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

  Colin Powell

  Terrorist, One Thing

  "Powell: Don't Let Terrorism Change 'Who We Are'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Views, World, Ability To Love

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• Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

  Brené Brown

  Want, Matter, Knows

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.147, Penguin

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• We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

  Leo Buscaglia

  People, Forgotten

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Rivers, Soul, Energy

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• What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.

  Kameron Hurley

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.

  Simon Sinek

  Decisions We Make, Decision, Authenticity

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 08, 2012

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• The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reflection, Mirrors, World

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• Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Library, Forget

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• What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

  Bob Taft

  Faith, Focus, September 11

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• I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are.

  David Bromstad

  Home, Thinking, Able

  "David Bromstad, Designer And HGTV Star, Talks 2013 Trends And Big Decor Mistakes". Interview with Rain Embuscado, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2013.

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• We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Compassion, Punishment

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

  Paul Auster

  Eye, Aliens, Ifs

  Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.101, Faber & Faber

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• I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a degenerate society, he remained pure and true. He is my hero. He stood alone. I feel somehow he stands atop the temple today, beckoning us to have courage, to remember who we are and to be worthy to enter the holy temple, to 'arise and shine forth,' to stand above the worldly clamor and to, as Isaiah prophesied, 'Come to the mountain of the Lord'-the holy temple.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Hero, Angel, Shining

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• We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

  Maya Angelou

  Pain, Needs, Language

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