Top 100 Who We Really Are Quotes
#1. Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
Charles De Lint
#2. When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.
Leonor Varela
#3. Why do we live in a time where we only say what we feel when it's too late? We have evolved. We can split atoms and cure diseases and travel to other planets. Yet we can't say how we feel. We can't tell one another who we really are and be accepted for it.
M. Jonathan Lee
#4. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.
RuPaul
#5. But here's the thing: other people's opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and labels them with Sharpies, yet those boxes are lies. They flatten us; they limit who we really are. Feminism
Kelly Jensen
#6. Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are.
T.D. Jakes
#7. When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.
Alan Finger
#8. I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.
Marina And The Diamonds
#9. Our angels often come to us in the times when we are unconscious because those are the times we are free of the continual thoughts of our mind. It is here that we remember who we really are. We remember who we are in our soul. We are greater than the physical life we have been living on earth.
Kate McGahan
#10. Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core.
Afnan Ahmad Mia
#11. No one can master love through force. It is only by giving in to such a powerful energy that we can learn more of who we really are.
Timothy Moran
#12. As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow the signs, this can help us understand who we really are.
Sebastian Pole
#13. As we come to the end of ourselves, we open the door to discovering the One who created us anew. The One who can whisper to us who we really are as we pilgrim toward our truest and deepest selves.
Margaret Feinberg
#14. It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are.
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
#15. If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.
RZA
#16. Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
Jack Kornfield
#17. Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.
Russell M. Nelson
#18. We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.
John Powell
#19. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are
-Sirious Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
#21. We all really do contradict ourselves and contain multitudes. How do we even figure out who we really are?
Jenn Bennett
#22. Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
David Deida
#23. As young people, we are surrounded by expectations that may have little to do with who we really are, expectations held by people who are not trying to discern our selfhood but to fit us into slots.
Parker J. Palmer
#24. Some memories just stay. They just refuse to give up on staying. Maybe it is good that they stay. It helps us stay rooted. It helps us to know who we really are.
Aditi Bose
#25. Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
Jack Kornfield
#26. We are so busy wearing masks that we've forgotten who we really are
Steven Aitchison
#27. We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.
Jefferson Bethke
#29. If we were to see the grandeur of our real selves, I suspect we would also see the necessity of living up to who we really are. And most of us are too lazy for that. Or else we are having too good a time enjoying our less than perfect lives to be bothered. (Claudia Martin)
Mary Balogh
#30. Attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas
Maggie Nelson
#31. When anyone gets devoured by drugs or alcohol, their souls are in hiding on another plane. Addictions are a kind of possession and to recover our true selves, we need help remembering who we really are.
Suzan Saxman
#32. There are too many people that try to change us, and not enough people who want us to be who we really are. Someone once made me see that, and i wanted to give that to you.
Penelope Douglas
#33. The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.
Riz Ahmed
#34. I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.
Dee White
#35. Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.
Donn Moomaw
#36. True freedom has to do with the human spirit - it is the freedom to be who we really are.
Miguel Ruiz
#37. Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga ... Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.
David Simon
#38. Who we really are shows up between extending the olive branch and waiting to see if it is received.
Bonnie Lyn Smith
#39. Releasing masks and veils allows the other to see you in your authenticity. Guards are dropped, and we can be seen for who we really are: the uniqueness of our personality, the beauty of our soul, our pure spirit.
John Friend
#40. Neither of us has a monoply on delusions.Our only hope is to take time to discover who we really are and decide if that's a reality we both can live with.
Sylvain Reynard
#42. I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.
Felicity Huffman
#43. In silence we can discover who we really are and find peace.
Colin Albin
#44. Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.
Alice Hoffman
#45. The majority of people in modern society feel separated - from the world, each other, and themselves. This feeling of separation is a resultfrom we humans attempting to separate ourselves from nature, and consequently forgetting who we really are.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#46. Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are.
Rick Riordan
#47. Our past doesn't define us, rather, it's the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.
Jocelyn Sanchez
#48. When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want
most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.
Megan Hart
#49. There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
Krishna Das
#50. My hope is, as we start sixth grade, as we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are. Thank you. How I Finally Introduced Myself I
R.J. Palacio
#51. It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.
Janine Shepherd
#52. It's strange how different we all appear to who we really are.
Sarah Pinborough
#53. We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are.
Nenia Campbell
#54. We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
Annette Bening
#55. Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.
Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.
Mark Batterson
#56. I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
Richard Paul Evans
#57. Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.
Marianne Williamson
#58. We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.
Marianne Williamson
#59. Sometimes it takes the love of others to show us who we really are.
Renee Carlino
#60. As we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are.
R.J. Palacio
#61. Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
Thomas Merton
#62. The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.
Jack Kornfield
#63. The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
Mark Epstein
#64. I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
Nikki Giovanni
#65. I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.
David Coverdale
#66. Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.
Peter Shepherd
#67. Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.
Kurt Hanks
#68. At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
Hugh Jackman
#69. Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don't think it's okay to be weak ... We have been injured in many ways and our real self houses all of the evidence of those injuries. The pain, the brokenness and the emotional underdevelopment we all possess is part of who we really are.
Henry Cloud
#70. The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.
David A. Bednar
#71. Consciousness is who we really are; thoughts, feelings, and emotions are passing and temporary, but consciousness is existence.
Belsebuub
#72. It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.
J.K. Rowling
#73. Our identity is anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not our own; Christ's strength, not ours; Christ's pedigree and track record, not ours; Christ's victory, not ours. Who we really are has nothing to do with us at all - rather, it has everything to do with what Jesus has done for us.
Tullian Tchividjian
#74. Ever read this?"
"Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are.
John Fowles
#75. We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.
John Cameron Mitchell
#76. People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.
George A. Sheehan
#77. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
Joyce Carol Oates
#78. Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#79. Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are.
Shonda Rhimes
#80. In the same way, we who are clothed in Christ have great power and none greater than to love - without which, to quote Paul, the rest is nothing. But only in surrendering the old business suit do we see who we really are.
Ted Dekker
#81. The dead praetor raised his sword. 'Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. Someone has come come for you, Jason Grace.
Rick Riordan
#82. We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.
Victor Shamas
#83. Who are we when we don't allow flaws in our existence, but people of denial? To delude ourselves into believing we are perfect or that perfection exists at any level is an injustice to who we really are.
Sarah Noffke
#84. It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.
Nia Long
#85. That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.
Connor Franta
#86. Every man makes mistakes, Shade, it's a cross every person has to bare. People make mistakes. It is the way we feel about those mistakes, the way we come back from them, that defines who we really are.
Caitlin Perry
#87. In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.
John Ortberg
#88. It is quite interesting to discover who we really are. It might take some time, but eventually we do.
Alexandra Kinias
#89. Isn't it a blessing when the Lord shows us the path to who we really are?
Jamison Green
#90. Every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are.
Elizabeth Lesser
#91. despair evaporates when we stop denying who we really are and attempt to uncover and accept our true nature.
Nigel Benson
#92. I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#93. Sometimes this world is like red fences in the snow. There ain't no hiding who we really are.
Tiffany McDaniel
#94. The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.
Marianne Williamson
#95. When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.
Naomi Alderman
#96. We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.
Nick Harkaway
#97. On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were.
Jerry Spinelli
#98. Perhaps the greatest gift an animal has to offer is a permanent reminder of who we really are.
Nick Trout
#99. The way to escape our entrapment in this world of matter is to acquire secret "knowledge" (= gnosis) from above of who we really are, how we came to be here, and how we can return to our heavenly, spiritual home.
Bart D. Ehrman
#100. To be shaped for life is never easy.
To discover who we really are, in the middle of what we want to be, or what we think that the world expects from us, is even less easy
Haidji
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