Quotes About Who We Are

#1. It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#2. 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

#3. We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.

Elaina Marie

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

Wayne Teasdale

#5. Who we are is how we are in relation to others

C. Terry Warner

#6. And as long as the world spins on, we can still dance. No matter who we are, we can always dance.

Aaron Starmer

#7. There have been times when I've wavered. When I thought maybe I wanted to be normal. But the thing is, what we do, it's in our blood. It's who we are. Normal wouldn't fit us, even if we wanted to wear it.

Victoria Schwab

#8. As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.

Anna Bligh

#9. Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person.

Richard J. Borden

#10. We all attach things to our hearts, the things we value, the things we need, the things that make us who we are. But maybe ... maybe its only when our hearts are broken, that those things can fall inside.

Mia Sheridan

#11. It is not who we are that holds us back it is who we think we are not.

Melva Henderson

#12. We can't act until we know who we are and what we believe.

Marian Deegan

#13. Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.

Harley King

#14. How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.

Toni Sorenson

#15. What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

Aleksandra Layland

#16. I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

Bill Viola

#17. Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.

Georgi Y. Johnson

#18. In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

Pema Chodron

#19. We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.

Barbara Brennan

#20. Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

Gurinder Chadha

#21. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Cameron Dokey

#22. The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Ben Shapiro

#23. And so we became who we are: gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused. It is not a bad way to be, when all is said and done.

Bill Richardson

#24. To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.

Shirley Jackson

#25. We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

Juan Luis Guerra

#26. We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

Kyle Schmid

#27. When the mundane looms larger than eternal life, we forget who God is, who we are, and who our children are.

Gloria Furman

#28. History is who we are right now. I mean, just because a chapter of life is over, it isn't gone ... (Page 303)

Holly Schindler

#29. in an individual sense, we are to be continual worshipers and praisers. Worship and praise is not something we decide to do for a few minutes a day or once a week, but it is who we are. Our attitude should always be that of a worshiper.

Ronald Sawka

#30. Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Clinton

#31. Islam is simple, but being a Muslim in a modern world is not. Everyday is a battle that each of us have to face. It is easy to get swept away and lose one's identity. The constant struggle is to find out who we are and how to remain steadfast.

Norhafsah Hamid

#32. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#33. I believe we must document our past; this tells us who we are and from where we came."
---Author Pamela Clark, from her interview with her publisher.

Pamela A. Clark

#34. We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

James Hall

#35. There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It's called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion

Ruben Papian

#36. Shame is all about fear. We're afraid that people won't like us if they know the truth about who we are, where we come from, what we believe, how much we're struggling, or, believe it or not, how wonderful we are when soaring

Brene Brown

#37. I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Douglas Coupland

#38. We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

Christine Downing

#39. Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did - as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

Lawrence W. Reed

#40. With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.

Edward J. Fraughton

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

Kofi Annan

#42. Everything in this world is based on interpretation, how we as people interpret the people and events and feelings around us. Then our interpretation defines us. Who we are is usually based on how we react to circumstances.

Jessiqua Wittman

#43. It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are.

Roisin Turner

#44. In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

Mick Dodson

#45. He wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are - if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.

Anthony Doerr

#46. Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are.

Debasish Mridha

#47. But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

Ted Cruz

#48. How we treat those who can't force us to be kind says everything about who we are as a people.

Connie Schultz

#49. Prayer is an expression of who we are ... We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

Thomas Merton

#50. What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#51. Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#52. In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

Alex Haley

#53. The pioneering anthropologist Louis Leakey once stated, Without an understanding of who we are, we cannot truly advance.

Gregg Braden

#54. 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

#55. The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

June Singer

#56. We should not exit from this world without finding out who we are and where we have come from. This is very important.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#57. Style requires digesting who we are.

Natalie Goldberg

#58. If we are not aware of who we are, how will we know where we are going or how we should get there

Sunday Adelaja

#59. When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.

Angeles Arrien

#60. It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

Austin Kleon

#61. St. Francis of Assisi had a saying, which was, "We are who we are in God's eyes and no more." We should keep this in mind when the spirit of vanity and pride want to rule us! How

Victoria Spalding

#62. ...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins.

Cindee Snider Re

#63. Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Angelina Jolie

#64. Neurologists tell us a startling truth that has major implications for spiritual formation: Our choices and experience shape our brain, both literally and physiologically. What we choose cognitively helps make us into who we are.

Gary L. Thomas

#65. By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

Michael Moorcock

#66. We all need to be reminded to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.

Arianna Huffington

#67. It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.

Elizabeth Strout

#68. Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.

J.W. Lord

#69. What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

Lee L Jampolsky

#70. For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.

Sergio Chejfec

#71. If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

Matthew Knisely

#72. We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

David McCullough

#73. There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.

Fennel Hudson

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

Marilyn Manson

#75. We are here not only to realize the truth of our being but to express it. If we realize who we are but still move from fear or a sense of obligation or cultural expectation, then the realization has not yet integrated into the whole of life.

Dhyana Stanley

#76. When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

Mark Nepo

#77. Circumstances shape who we are and who we become. I believe that. But I also believe we have choices. There are always choices.

Lisa Schroeder

#78. The greatness of who we are is discovered by how we handle our mistakes. John Paul Jackson

Laura Smith

#79. The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#80. our lives teach us who we are

Salman Rushdie

#81. We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

Phil McGraw

#82. Who we are as African-Americans, as black folks in the diaspora, our cultural destiny, has been shaped by both the enslaved and the free.

Bell Hooks

#83. Who we are' is at least as important as 'what we want to achieve.

Brene Brown

#84. Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves.

Julia Cameron

#85. Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

Dan Ariely

#86. Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.

Simon Sinek

#87. Until both men and women are allowed to be who we are rather than who we are supposed to be, it will be impossible to achieve freedom and equality.

Brene Brown

#88. Perfection is overrated, boring. It's the imperfections--the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the human elements--that make us who we are, that make us real, beautiful . . . necessary.

Guy Harrison

#89. I think if we ignore that night, that kiss, then we're both denying a part of who we are.

Samantha Chase

#90. I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

Abigail Washburn

#91. There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.

Richard Holmes

#92. Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Barbara Boxer

#93. When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

Bill Crawford

#94. When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

James MacDonald

#95. I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

Mitt Romney

#96. RVM's Thought for the Day -
There is nobody else on earth like You and Me. Let us be who we are meant to be.

R.v.m.

#97. The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.

Lysa TerKeurst

#98. Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that is completely all right. We are who we are - and so is everyone else.

Joan D. Chittister

#99. If two points are destined to touch, the universe will always find a way to make the connection- even when all hope seems to be lost. Certain ties cannot be broken. They define who we are and who we become. Across space, across time, among paths we cannot predict- nature will always find a way.

Savi Sharma

#100. The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

Elizabeth Lesser