Who We Are Quotes - Page 39

• To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our own terms, under our own values and aligned with our original dreams. We must tap our hidden selves; explore the deep-seated, unseen hopes, desires, strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. We must understand where we have been and where we are going.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Live Life, Self

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• A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

  Steve Berry

  Educational, Effort, Legacy

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• Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for we would be no longer who we are.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Encouragement, Real, Imagination

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• The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Damn, Damn Good

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

  Frederick Buechner

  Pain, Joy, Risk

  Frederick Buechner (1992). “The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction”, Harpercollins

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• Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.

  David Frawley

  Motivation, Action, Prime

  David Frawley, Sandra Summerfield Kozak (2001). “Yoga for Your Type: An Ayurvedic Approach to Your Asana Practice”, p.26, Lotus Press

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• It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, America, Worry

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• When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.

  Yanni

  Reflection, People, Creative

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• We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

  Neil Strauss

  Mean, Years, Twelve

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• Stadiums fill up with people to see what's going to happen between the lines. But life isn't only about visible realities. There are invisible and unseen nuances...things that shape us into who we are.

  Orel Hershiser

  Reality, People, Lines

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• It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

  Rosario Castellanos

  Not Good Enough, Answers, Circumstances

  Rosario Castellanos (2010). “A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama”, p.356, University of Texas Press

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• We all have negative days, but that doesn't mean we are pessimistic. We all do stupid things, but that doesn't mean we are stupid. It's important to be able to distinguish between what happens to us and who we are, and look forward with hope for new and better days ahead!

  Lindsey Stirling

  Stupid, Mean, Important

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• What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.

  Joseph Bernardin

  Letting Go, Prayer, Simple

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• The name Yunupingu means 'rock - rock that stands against time'. The name Yunupingu belonged to my grandad, like he was a hero in his time. It was passed down through the generations to my Father. It's a name that makes us understand who we are, where we're coming from and what our connections are to mother earth and the universe.

  Mandawuy Yunupingu

  Mother, Father, Hero

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• Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.

  Adam Braun

  People, Leaving, Way

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• It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Ideas, People, Stuff

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

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• Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

  James Green

  Important

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• We never know our good or bad as we loose our judgement living with them.worst part is we don't accept who we are & hence remain confused for the rest of our life.

  Gopichand Lagadapati

  Confused, Judgement, Accepting

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• So much of who we are is where we have been.

  William Langewiesche

  Has Beens

  William Langewiesche (2011). “Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert”, p.46, Vintage

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• If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

  Terence Conran

  Home, Progress, Connections

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• Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Determine

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• We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

  Charlie Fletcher

  May, Littles, Knows

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• Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Love, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.

  David F. Wells

  Choices, Sinfulness, Forgiven

  David F. Wells (2008). “The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World”, p.167, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.

  Anna McPartlin

  Pain, Birth, Natural

  Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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