Who We Are Quotes - Page 25

• Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are.

  Sukarno

  Forget

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• We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Blue, Magic

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.64, Penguin

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• The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Play, Special

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.63, Da Capo Press

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• Your flag flyin' over the courthouse
  Means certain things are set in stone.
  Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mean, Flying, Flags

  "Song: 'Long Walk Home'". 2007.

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• I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.

  Alan Lightman

  Technology, Thinking, Reflection

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• It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Our World, Differences

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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• It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Purpose, Knows

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• Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

  David Gemmell

  Together, Lad

  David Gemmell (2011). “The King Beyond The Gate”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• If it's not as easy as we thought it was, for women to speak our truth, to even know our truth, then the missing ingredient is some sort of inner courage. To first of all, believe in the validity of who we are. And then to speak from it. It takes inner courage. As a leader in a large organization, I've often been the only woman working with powerful men, especially when I was younger.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Who I Am, Darkness

  Paris Review, Issue 116, 1990.

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• Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Future, Assumption, Our Future

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2007). “America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again”, p.177, Crown Business

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• Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

  Jack LaLanne

  Why Not, Matter, Life Is

  Jack Lalanne (2008). “Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness and Finance: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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• That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Running, Successful, Stuff

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• The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.

  Chris Abani

  Fashion, Wall, Home

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

  David Richo

  Mean, Psychology, Healthy

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• The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and the Guru knows who he is.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Differences, Giving, Littles

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• Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that' or 'you shouldn't say that' or 'that wasn't appropriate' so most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK.......Most human beings have an imprinting that if they're real, if they're honest, somebody's not gonna like it. And they won't be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.

  Adyashanti

  Real, People, Childhood

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• When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

  Bill Crawford

  Decision, Important, Emotion

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• In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Patterns

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• You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.

  Brett Brown

  Funny, Fire, Nba

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• We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Intelligent

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• There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Feelings, Ancient

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• It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

  Jack Hunter

  People, Flags, Confederate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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