Who We Are Quotes - Page 33

• Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Expression, Gaps

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• Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

  Mark Nepo

  Ocean, Heart, Rushing

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.111, Conari Press

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  We are who we are because somebody loved us.

  Cornel West

  Cornel West (2011). “Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir”, p.251, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color.... But the water, the glorious water everywhere, has taught me that we are more than what we reflect or love. This is the work of compassion: to embrace everything clearly without imposing who we are and without losing who we are.

  Mark Nepo

  Thinking, Compassion, Blue

  Mark Nepo (2000). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have”, p.150, Conari Press

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• When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

  Beth Moore

  Beth Moore (2007). “Jesus: 90 Days with the One and Only”, p.164, B&H Publishing Group

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• It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

  Austin Kleon

  Figures

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• Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

  Isla Fisher

  Cutting, Ideas, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are who we are because of who we were

  Vanilla Ice

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.

  Nina Dobrev

  Way, Sometimes

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• If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

  Hugo Weaving

  Talking, Psychology, Film

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• Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our lead characters can only look like somebody else. Heroes look like all of us. We see ourselves in each others' stories. We see who we are. We see who we want to be. Sometimes we see who we don't want to be. And through that we have a greater understanding of ourselves and acceptance of each other.

  Kerry Washington

  Hero, Character, Acceptance

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• Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

  Simon T. Bailey

  People, Special, Genius

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• What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

  Jonathan Ive

  People, Design, Care

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• The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life.

  David Spangler

  Hero, Home, Space

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• To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

  Eve Ensler

  Dream, Pain, Women

  Eve Ensler (1998). “The Vagina Monologues”, Villard Books

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• We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

  Brené Brown

  Self, Authentic Self, Offers

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

  Mari Evans

  Trying, Language, Poetic

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Yoga, Thinking, Fda

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• The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Race, Essence

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• We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

  John S. Pistole

  Sea, Limited Resources, Attention

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• So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Fun, Thinking

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• God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

  Tina Howe

  Misunderstood, Tools, Crafts

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• Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would make for incredibly boring writing, at least to my taste. Creating someone I don't know and her made-up world shows us more about who we are - is actually a better mirror - than if I were to parade in front of you an instantly recognizable person in an instantly recognizable situation. I'm not saying, Let's make it all abstract and weird and difficult and thereby you will know more about yourself. My process is much more organic than that.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Thinking, Creating

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• I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

  Abigail Washburn

  Believe, Opportunity, Giving

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