Who We Are Quotes - Page 5

• Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Desire, Accepting

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• Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think weought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other peoplethink we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directlywith compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat andheartache, no punishment.

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Thinking, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late.  We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives.  To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life.

  Margaret Cho

  Powerful, Happy Life, Love Is

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• A healthy soul must do two things for us. First, it must put some fire in our veins, keep us energized, vibrant, living with zest and full of hope as we sense that life is, ultimately beautiful and worth living ... Second, a healthy soul has to keep us fixed together. It has to continually give us a sense of who we are, where we came from, where we are going, and what sense there is in all of this.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Beautiful, Zest, Two

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• In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

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• We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  World, Want, Stuff

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• We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. Maybe we don't all have that dream. I don't know. Getting to role play or step back to a different moment in time and see things through a different lens is something that resonated with me, for sure. We don't get to do that, generally, but when the right neurological disorder lines up with the right unstable woman, that moment presents itself. Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

  Simon Helberg

  Dream, Play, Profound

  Source: collider.com

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• It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

  Maya Harris

  Would Be, Impossible, Share

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

  Philip Berrigan

  Truth, Killing, Hiding

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• We don't have to make the bible relevant-it is-but we have to show its relevance. What is irrelevant, in my opinion, is our style of communicating it. We are tending to still use the style from 50 years back that doesn't match who we are trying to reach today.

  Rick Warren

  Years, Style, Trying

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• Our sport becomes not just what we do but an integral symbol-on all levels-of who we are.

  Gloria Averbuch

  Sports, Levels, Symbols

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• We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.

  Steve McVey

  Spiritual, Two, Christ

  Steve McVey (2011). “52 Lies Heard in Church Every Sunday”, p.93, Harvest House Publishers

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• Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Want, Way, Language

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Stewart Vogel (1999). “The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life”, p.69, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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• The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Children, Genius

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• Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

  Garrison Keillor

  Winter, Seasons

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• Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone else, can only lead to a life of misery, frustration, and unfulfillment.

  Stormie Omartian

  Frustration, Knowing, Trying

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Parent”, p.79, Harvest House Publishers

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• Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

  John le Carre

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• Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning.

  David A. Bednar

  Responsibility, Understanding, Earth

  "Learning to Love Learning". David A. Bednar's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. February 2010.

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• 'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Home, Heart

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• Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.

  Michael Dukakis

  Believe

  Acceptance speech delivered to the Democratic Party's national convention, www.cnn.com. July 21, 1996.

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• When we see Christ for who He is He then tells us who we are.

  Bradley Cooper

  Christ

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• In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Analysis, Way, Ends

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• There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Taken, Thoughtful, Light

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• It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Way, Sometimes, Changed

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• Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Lying, Garden, Practice

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