Who We Are Quotes - Page 4

• Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.

  Wayne Dyer

  Infinite

  "Self-Help Guru Wayne Dyer Dies" by Dominique Mosbergen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2015.

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• We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.

  Wayne Dyer

  Careers, Body, Infinite

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• Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

  Maria Popova

  Life Is, Process, Arrivals

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• We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.

  Calvin Miller

  Heart, Self, Forever

  Calvin Miller (2010). “A Hunger for the Holy: Nuturing Intimacy with Christ”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The things we love
  tell us who we are.

  Thomas Aquinas

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• Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

  John Ortberg

  Significance

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• Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

  Connie Zweig

  Work, Shadow, Happens

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• I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Self, Identity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Together, Culture, Inheritance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Kids, Suffering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you study our greatest artists, you will find that they give us a key to understand how to deal with each other, and that our bloodlines are intertwined. It's not hyphenated America. That there is an America, and it is expressed in those arts. It gives us a key to figure out how to negotiate with each other, and it tells us actually who we are.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, America, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we learn that Jesus wants us for a Sunbeam until we learn more fully the basic principles of the gospel, we are taught to strive for perfection. It is not new to us then to talk of the importance of achievement. The difficulty arises when inflated expectations of the world alter our definition of greatness.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Jesus, Greatness, Expectations

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• Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

  David McCullough

  Past, Generations, Today

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• How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?

  Virginia Postrel

  Discovery, Civilization, Competition

  Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which literalism points. That first page is not geology, biology or paleontology; it is high religion. For there we are told who we are in terms of our constititutive text. And if we could understand that, we would worrying about whether the antelopes or the cantaloupes came in a certain order.

  Joseph Sittler

  Order, Worry, Firsts

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• The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Lying, Humanity

  Reagan, Ronald (1989). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1987”, p.682, Best Books on

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• I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Believe, Safety

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• People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Decisions We Make, People

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• When we no longer are afraid of who we are we act from integrity and authenticity.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Integrity, Authenticity

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• I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

  Oprah Winfrey

  Strong, Moving, Trials

  "Snuggling up with Martha, Oprah and Dick" by Laurel Wellman, www.sfgate.com. November 1, 2001.

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• What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.

  Adam Gopnik

  Behaviour, Tables, Way

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Writing, Offending, Laughing

  "Writer-director Corbin Bernsen finds a well-matched creative partner in 'Christian Mingle'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. February 2015.

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• Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired, and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Years, Appreciate, Old Friends

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.

  David Finckel

  Ideas, Years, People

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• Those of us who don't want to worship an invisible being or spend our days fretting about punishment in Hades do want to be able to share what we hold dear with our families and the broader world, and we want to be understood and appreciated for who we are.

  Greg Epstein

  Punishment, World, Want

  Greg Epstein (2009). “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, p.14, Harper Collins

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