Who We Are Quotes - Page 3

• We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hurt, Mean, Writing

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Apr 19, 2014

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• As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.

  Tom Cruise

  Artist, Play, Actors

  "Stanley Kubrick". Interview with Terry Semel and Tom Cruise, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 20, 2012.

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• Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis of what we have, what we do, and who we are better than, and so on - but shift into more reaching out, more service, more kindness, more living the virtues that Lao Tzu spoke about twenty-five hundred years ago.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Years, Always Trying

  Interview with Miro Lipinski, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2017.

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• What we wear is the shell of who we are.

  Audrey Tautou

  Shells

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• The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.

  RuPaul

  Spiritual, Color, Dancing

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• I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, Maturity, Stronger

  "Angelina Jolie: 'What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

  Charles Tillman

  Winning, Competition, Looks

  Source: www.sportsdouchebags.com

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• The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here.

  Mark Nepo

  Listening, Different, Way

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• I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

  Dave Barry

  People, Want, Libertarian

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.

  Richard Bach

  People, Shining, Path

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that.

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, Perfect, Joy

  An Interview with Richard Bach by Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.

  Richard Bach

  Beautiful, Character, Choices

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Wise, Wisdom, Humanity

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Stewart Vogel (1999). “The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life”, p.69, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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• Leaders being born vs. made is a bit of a separate issue. The research on this issue is fairly conclusive: 50/50. We have innate predispositions that affect who we are and what we do (nature) but we can learn and develop and grow (nurture).

  Dave Ulrich

  Issues, Leader, Research

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that's who we are. People often don't try to understand black men as a whole. We're creative, strong and influential.

  Thomas Jones

  Strong, Thug, Men

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Writing, Giving

  "The Billboard Q&A: Sheryl Crow". Interview with Ken Tucker, www.billboard.com. January 23, 2008.

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• But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Spiritual, Voice

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• Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

  Jeff Smith

  Memories, Food, Order

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• But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place, which our species inhabited for most of its evolutionary life. That place that shaped our psyches and made us who we are. The place where nature is big and we are small.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Believe, Psych, Environment

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea of Home”, p.12, HarperCollins Australia

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• More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems of our selves, reminders of who we are or would like to be. Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.

  Seth

  Self, Personality, Use

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• What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

  Stephen Elliott

  Believe, Order, Shapes

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let's be about leaving this world better than we find it each and every day. Our life is a testimony and through us divine loving is becoming more manifest. Greater good is calling upon us here in this world to be done this day. One of my rallying calls is let's go out and do some good. This is who we are. This is what we are about.

  John Morton

  Leaving, Calling, Done

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• We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

  Andrew Cohen

  Rights, Equal, Willing

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