Who We Are Quotes - Page 24

• Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.

  Twyla Tharp

  Later In Life, Issues, Interesting

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• Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that is completely all right. We are who we are - and so is everyone else.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Perfect, Age, Done

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• For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it.

  Ashley Young

  Christian, Who I Am, People

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• Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.

  John Frusciante

  Feet, Being Thankful, World

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• If life is to have meaning, and if God's will is to be done, all of us have to accept who we are and what we are, give it back to God, and thank Him for the way He made us. What I am is God's gift to me; what I do with it is my gift to Him.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Thanksgiving, Done, Way

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1994). “Be Myself: Memoirs of a Bridgebuilder”, Chariot Victor Publishing

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• Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Pain, Identity

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have trials and tribulations and that shows who we are as a person.

  Travis Browne

  Mma, Trials, Shows

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• For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are.

  Chael Sonnen

  Fighting, Mma, People

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• It's really nice to have someone who's intelligent and articulate to talk to about what you're doing, because it's a big part of who we are.

  Chris Pratt

  Nice, Intelligent, Bigs

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2009.

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• In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

  Miroslav Volf

  Good Relationship, Grows, Persons

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• As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

  Adam Braun

  Meaningful, Thinking, Two

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• Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Uplifting, Meaningful, Responsibility

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• There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It’s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion

  Ruben Papian

  Our Actions, Opinion, Fantasy

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• It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.

  Shiri Appleby

  Important, Accepting

  Source: collider.com

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• "What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?" a university student asked me several years ago. "The brevity of it," I replied without hesitation. Time moves so quickly, and no matter who we are or what we have done, the time will come when our lives will be over. As Jesus said, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work" (John 9:4).

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Moving, Night

  "Just As I Am : The Autobiography of Billy Graham". Book by Billy Graham co-written with Cliff Barrows, 1997.

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• Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Dream, Dark, Dark Thoughts

  Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.284, Macmillan

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• Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Knowing, Agony

  1964 Leduc. Incident at Vichy, act1.

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• How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

  R. D. Laing

  Giving, Our Actions, Praxis

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• If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Passing On, People, Generations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Children, Sibling

  "Tracee Ellis Ross: The ​'Stylista' Speaking Up for Sisters". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. November 8, 2012.

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• There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through them, we see ourselves and gain an understanding of what we're going through. Then slowly, real slowly, we learn to accept who we see in the mirror. Then you become the mirror for them; by being honest about who you are, you'll help them learn to love and accept themselves.

  Melody Beattie

  Pain, Real, Grief

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• Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

  Stacy London

  Real, Impact, Light

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• No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Children, Successful

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.244, Macmillan

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• America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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