Who We Are Quotes - Page 38

• We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Destiny, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.

  Phil Callaway

  Life, Thinking, People

  Phil Callaway (2009). “Making Life Rich Without Any Money”, p.137, Harvest House Publishers

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• The expression of our truth is an ancient action through which we actually discover our place in the world; the true shape of our being and our individuality. It is how we create firm boundaries and allow others to know who we are and what we value.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Expression, Individuality

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• We read books to find out who we are.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Discovery, Self Understanding

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing

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• We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  Order, Succeed, Behave

  Leszek Kolakowski (1997). “Modernity on Endless Trial”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

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• I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

  Guy Scott

  Men, Suspicion, Models

  "Zambian vice-president: 'South Africans are backward'" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2013.

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• No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

  Elif Safak

  Looks, Matter, Needs

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• Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us. They can try like
  hell to put it out, but as long as we know in our minds who we are meant to be,
  they will never stand a chance.

  Andy Biersack

  Fire, Long, Mind

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• What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

  Tom Shadyac

  What Matters, Matter, Beats

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• The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is.
  The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.

  Neil T Anderson

  Children, Important, Who God Is

  Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Who I Am in Christ (Large Print 16pt)”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.

  Neil T Anderson

  Lying, Believe, Character

  Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.

  Sherry Turkle

  World, Links, Might

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• We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere--from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water.

  Daniel Taylor

  School, Breathing, Water

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• It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Matter, Becoming

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• To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge, Successful, People

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• Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.

  Francis Chan

  Church, Identity, Add

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2012). “Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples”, p.309, David C Cook

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• We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Trying, Reconnecting

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.114, Shambhala Publications

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• We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.

  Mark Nepo

  Journey, Land, Special

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• Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become.

  Cynthia Hand

  Accomplishment, Events, Purpose

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• Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Uplifting, Spring, Journey

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.98, New World Library

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• It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

  Thomas Merton

  Keys, Understanding, Enemy

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.216, Macmillan

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• Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

  Martin Heidegger

  Self, World, Steps

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• The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Truth, Fall, World

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 26, 2011

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• Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils down to one simple and profoundly evil idea: They said that our unborn children have no rights that the rest of us are bound to respect. And when they made that decision they unleashed on America an unbelievable event that has undermined who we are and what we believe.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Simple

  "Bauer officially jumps into 2000 race". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1999.

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• God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

  John Ortberg

  One Day, Looks, Wickedness

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.24, Harper Collins

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