Who We Are Quotes - Page 29

• Worship helps us find who we are and why God has placed us here on the earth. When we bow in God's presence with worship, only then are we made complete.

  Judson Cornwall

  Earth, Bows, Helping

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• For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Perspective, Long, Identity

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• Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.

  John Welwood

  Determination, Dark, Compassion

  John Welwood (1991). “JOURNEY HEART PB”, Harper Perennial

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• Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Love Is, Essentials

  "Interview with Marianne Williamson About ‘A Course in Miracles’". Interview with Gabby Bernstein, gabbybernstein.com. September 5, 2013.

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• This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.

  Nate Parker

  Psychosis, Sometimes, Couches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.

  Nate Parker

  Identity, Pieces, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Who we are is not who we can become.

  Donald L. Hallstrom

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• Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time.

  A.M. Homes

  Children, Struggle, Loss

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• Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

  Astro Teller

  Science, Intelligent, Winning

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• We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

  Jon Meacham

  Law, Liberty, Action

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• Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lying, Insecure, Mirrors

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.279, MIT Press

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• Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Play, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

  Demian Bichir

  Cinema, Made, Reminders

  Source: collider.com

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• We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

  Francis Chan

  People, Needs, Reputation

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• Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

  William P. Young

  Thinking, Identity, Produce

  Interview with C.J. Darlington, Miriam Parker, Deena Peterson, Melissa J. Carswell, www.titletrakk.com.

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• Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.

  Rhonda Britten

  Hurt, Fear, Self

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.98, Penguin

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• Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.

  Rhonda Britten

  Powerful, Life Changing, Moving

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.139, Penguin

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• Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

  Pete Wilson

  Self Worth, World, Christ

  Pete Wilson (2012). “Empty Promises: The Truth About You, Your Desires, and the Lies You're Believing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

  Terri E Apter

  Self, Goal, Decision

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• Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Desire, Stories

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• When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Life, Women, Together

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

  Alan Rickman

  Stories, Species, Knows

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• One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

  Russell Banks

  Children, Parent, Want

  "American Spirituality: Tony Campolo and Russell Banks". Interview with Michael Carey, www.abc.net.au. July 19, 2000.

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• It is in the context...of the body in Christ that we understand who we are and where we fit.

  Alistair Begg

  Body, Fit, Christ

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• What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

  Brené Brown

  Knowing, Matter, Showing Up

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.23, Penguin

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