Who We Are Quotes - Page 34

• Adorkable is a freeform, loose-knit, organic network of like-minded souls who might get pushed to the ground for the way we think and the way we look and because we're not afraid of who we are, but my God we're looking up at the stars.

  Sarra Manning

  Stars, Thinking, Soul

  Sarra Manning (2012). “Adorkable”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Air, Convince Us

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.254, Vintage

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• Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspiring, Live Life, Justice

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.118, Routledge

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• We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Strong Women, Rose

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us
  for years.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Years, People

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• When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Covenant, Realizing

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• We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not.

  Kofi Annan

  Hate

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2017

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• Why do I live in Israel? Because Israel lives in me, as it lives in all Jews. It is who we are. And those of us lucky enough to recognize this truth and embrace it in all its fullness and depth are the luckiest Jews in the world.

  Caroline Glick

  Israel, Depth, Lucky

  "Caroline B. Glick: Woman of Valor - A Shackled Warrior". Livia Bitton-Jackson, The Jewish Press, February 18, 2009.

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• What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

  Joshua Prager

  Mind, Body, Happens

  "In search of the man who broke my neck". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

  Frank Pierson

  Dream, Civilization, Becoming

  "‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner ‘Lucky’ to Have Worked With the Late Frank Pierson in WGAW Statement About His Passing" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 23, 2012.

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• You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

  Jonathan Carroll

  People, Get Better, Knows

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• It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

  Spike Lee

  People, Black, Identity

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• Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.

  Marie Forleo

  Humans, True Worth, Human Beings

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• We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

  Steven Pressfield

  Integrity, Believe, Struggle

  Steven Pressfield (2011). “The Warrior Ethos”, p.12, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

  Mitch Albom

  Two, Matter, Common

  CNN Interactive's Tuesday Book Chat, www.cnn.com.

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• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

  Steve Almond

  Teacher, Parent, Baggage

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• Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

  Christian Rudder

  Fighting, Data, Age

  Christian Rudder (2014). “Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves”, p.16, Crown

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• I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

  Dylan Moran

  Believe, Thinking, Obvious Things

  "Comedian Dylan Moran: 'What am I looking forward to? Incontinence and memory loss'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.

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• Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

  Julianne Moore

  Dream, Art, Believe

  "Julianne Moore Talks SPF, Tom Ford, and 'The English Teacher'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

  Robert Breault

  Break, Knows

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• The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.

  John Verdon

  Pain, Mistake, Looks

  John Verdon (2010). “Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No. 1)”, p.102, Broadway Books

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• We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Reality, Christ

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• Alex Riley and I will be driving from live event to live event and if Ke$ha comes on it is blasted throughout the entire car and we are singing at the top of our lungs. So if you ever see A-Ry and me in a car you might catch us in an embarrassing moment of two 30-year-old grown men screaming 'You know we're Superstars.' We are who we are. DJ turn it up up up.

  The Miz

  Men, Wwe, Two

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• People are often very frightened of their anger. They feel it will cause them to do something harmful. If you have this fear, create a safe situation where you can express your anger, alone or with a trusted therapist or friend. Allow yourself to talk angrily, shout, hit pillows, whatever you feel like. Once you've done this in a safe environment, you will have released some of the charge, and you can look underneath the anger to find what you need to do to take better care of yourself. Like any emotion, anger is a valuable tool, teaching us who we are and how we feel.

  Shakti Gawain

  Anger, Teaching, Safe Environment

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• One day, a woman found herself standing at Heaven's gate. The angels' only question to her was, "Zusai, why weren't you Zusai?" Within that simple question lies the heart of all our soul work. If you are David, why aren't you fully David? If you are Susan, why aren't you completely Susan? We are here on Earth to become who we are meant to be.

  Angeles Arrien

  Lying, Heart, Angel

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