Who We Are Quotes - Page 27

• We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

  Merle Shain

  Marriage, Growing Up, Night

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Believe, Feelings, Listening

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• the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

  Jenny Lawson

  Want, Today, Imperfect

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• Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

  Alison Lurie

  Talking, Clothes, Bed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I write about families. That is who we are.

  Per Petterson

  Writing, About Family

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• Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?

  Kathryn Schulz

  Thinking, Errors, Intellectual

  Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Art, Soul, Humanity

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• Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Doe

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• We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Children, Green, Fairy Tale

  Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.

  Lynne Rossetto Kasper

  Country, Believe, Food

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• In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.

  James Tate

  Book, Writing, Humility

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• We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Remember

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• Yes, bin Laden the man is dead. But he achieved all he set out to achieve, and a hell of a lot more. He forever changed who we are as a country, and for the worse. Mostly because we let him. That isn't something a special ops team can fix.

  Radley Balko

  Country, Team, Men

  "Osama Won". reason.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a booger it's not necessarily about that. It's about something more. It's about inviting a little bit of absurdity into the process and humanity into the process. Making sure that no matter who we are and what sort of pedestal or glamorous lighting we're under, we're all eating boogers man.

  David Gordon Green

  Men, People, Humanity

  "SXSW Interview: Nicolas Cage, David Gordon Green, and Tye Sheridan for ‘Joe’". www.geekscape.net. April 10, 2014.

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• The problem facing humanity today is not a political problem; it's not a financial problem; it's not a military problem. It's obviously a spiritual problem. That is, it has to do with what we believe to be true about who we are, where we are, why we are where we are, and what are we doing on the Earth. What is the purpose of life itself? What we need right now are leaders or models, people who will stand up and not only help to write a cultural story, but help to model it in the way that they interact with each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Military, Believe

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Moving, Self

  "In the Meantime". Book by Iyanla Vanzant, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Relationship, Space

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• All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Needs, Insight, Live Well

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• Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

  Howard Behar

  Honesty, Want, Clarity

  Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.19, Penguin

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• What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Believe, Reflection, Choices

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• I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Doe, Actresses

  "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

  Debbie Ford

  Inspired, Excited, States

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• It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.

  Taylor Schilling

  Wrinkles, Order, Bravery

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• How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

  David McCullough

  Cost, Knows, Has Beens

  David McCullough (2007). “Brave Companions”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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