100+ Who We Are Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Lisa See: Best-selling Author Talks Female Friendships, Adapting Her Novel To Film". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

topic: People, Who We Are, Helping

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

- Cate Blanchett

topic: Character, Thinking, Who We Are

Be what we make, and not who we are.

- Catherine Breillat

topic: Directors, Who We Are, Filmmaking

What we do flows from who we are.

- Charles Colson

topic: Inspirational, Environmental, Who We Are

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Forgiveness, Wish, Who We Are, Offenders

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

- Charlie Fletcher

topic: May, Littles, Who We Are

It's really nice to have someone who's intelligent and articulate to talk to about what you're doing, because it's a big part of who we are.

- Chris Pratt

source: Interview with Leonard Pierce, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2009.

topic: Nice, Intelligent, Who We Are

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

- Christine Downing

topic: Needs, Might, Who We Are

Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way.

- Christine Kane

topic: Mean, Who We Are, Way

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

- Christopher Barzak

source: Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.24, Bantam

topic: Real, Who We Are, Mask, Wearing A Mask

He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.

- Christopher McDougall

topic: Running, Essence, Who We Are

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Shapes, Who We Are, Madness, Brisingr

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

- Chuck Jones

topic: Want, Who We Are, Bugs

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we areâ€¦Or we can decide for ourselves.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: World, Who We Are

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

- Colin Quinn

topic: Crazy, Humanity, Who We Are

God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were.

- Dale G. Renlund

topic: Care, Who We Are, Becoming

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

- David Bezmozgis

source: The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

topic: Thinking, Doe, Who We Are

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

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

topic: Choices, Who We Are, Sinfulness

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

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

topic: Motivation, Who We Are, Action

We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us....

- David Levien

topic: Running, Destiny, Who We Are

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

- David McCullough

source: David McCullough (2007). “Brave Companions”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

topic: Cost, Who We Are

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

- David McCullough

source: FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 13, 2012

topic: History, Who We Are, Way, Navigation, Perilous Times

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

- David Platt

topic: Who We Are, Revelations

Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.

- David Shi

topic: Contentment, Purpose, Who We Are

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

- David Weinberger

topic: Pieces, Who We Are, Messages, Personalization

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: People, Trying, Who We Are, Trying To Change

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Uplifting, Reflection, Who We Are, Alternative Medicine

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Looks, Who We Are, Accepting

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Who We Are

Part of knowing ourselves is also being able to accept who we are and to value ourselves regardless of our flaws. Accepting who we are allows us to value our worth without conditions or reservations.

- Diane Greene

topic: Knowing, Who We Are, Able

We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.

- Dinah Lenney

source: "The Object Parade: Essays". Book by Dinah Lenney, 2014.

topic: Space, Who We Are, Way

Who we are is not who we can become.

- Donald L. Hallstrom

topic: Who We Are

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

- Donald Miller

source: Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Who We Are, Certain

Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.

- Donald O. Clifton

source: Donald O. Clifton (1992). “Soar with Your Strengths”

topic: Who We Are, Helping

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Events, Who We Are, Remember, Pivotal

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

- Ed Miliband

topic: Country, Want, Who We Are

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

- Eduardo Galeano

topic: Wine, Who We Are, Made

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

topic: Understanding, Needs, Who We Are

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be,

- Edward Snowden

source: Edward Snowden’s Christmas speech to the U.K., www.dailydot.com. December 25, 2013.

topic: Want, Who We Are, Matter

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

- Elif Safak

topic: Needs, Looks, Who We Are

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

- Elizabeth Fishel

source: Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company

topic: Sisterhood, Mirrors, Who We Are

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

- Ellen DeGeneres

source: Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.8, HarperCollins Australia

topic: Issues, Who We Are, Flaws

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

- Emilio Estevez

source: "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview With Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

topic: Media, Who We Are, Messages

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

- Emily Giffin

source: Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.348, Macmillan

topic: Love And Friendship, Who We Are

Where we are is vital to who we are,

- Eric Weiner

source: "Eric Weiner travels the world to follow 'Geography of Bliss'" by Karla Starr, www.sfgate.com. January 20, 2008.

topic: Who We Are

That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

- Eric Weiner

topic: Past, Who We Are, Way, Touchstones

We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.

- Erin Hunter

topic: Overcoming, Who We Are, Sometimes

Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

- Esther Perel

topic: Identity, Who We Are, Today

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

- Eva Longoria

source: "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

topic: Mean, Doe, Who We Are

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

- Frances Moore Lappé

source: "O Magazine", May 2004.

topic: Roots, Who We Are, Deny

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Life Changing, Who We Are

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Different, World, Who We Are

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Character, Past, Who We Are

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

- Geoffrey Jellicoe

topic: Who We Are, Architecture, Remember, Architecture And Art

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

- George O. Wood

topic: Who We Are, Preaching, Persecution

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

topic: Confused, Judgement, Who We Are

the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.

- Greg Mortenson

source: Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

topic: People, Who We Are, Lasts, Last Place

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

- Gregg Popovich

source: "Spurs' fortitude fueled title run" by J.A. Adande, www.espn.com. November 19, 2014.

topic: Who We Are, Way

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Memories, Heart, Who We Are

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are...

- Gunilla Brodde Norris

source: "Find Your True Self Through Silence", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2015.

topic: Silence, Who We Are, Remember

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

- Guy Scott

source: "Zambian vice-president: 'South Africans are backward'" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2013.

topic: Men, Who We Are, Suspicion

Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another must not be dependent on his performance. It should be given because of who we are-not because of how we behave.

- H. Burke Peterson

topic: Inspiration, Exhibitions, Who We Are

Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are........

- Harold Homer Anderson

topic: Experience, Who We Are, Today

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Who We Are, Colorless

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Gratitude, Who We Are, Flow

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Tragedy, Who We Are, Life Is

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Who We Are, Beloved, Moments

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Who We Are, Authenticity

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

- Hilary Swank

topic: Thinking, Who We Are, Evolve

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

topic: Jobs, Self Love, Who We Are

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

- Holly Smale

topic: Events, Stories, Who We Are

Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

- Hope Solo

topic: Struggle, Reality, Who We Are

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

- Howard Behar

source: Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.19, Penguin

topic: Honesty, Want, Who We Are

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

- Howard Schultz

source: Howard Schultz (2011). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul”, p.200, Rodale

topic: Adversity, Who We Are, Made

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

- Hugo Weaving

topic: Talking, Psychology, Who We Are

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

- Ian MacKaye

topic: People, Who We Are, Judgmental, Judgmental Person

It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

- Jack Hunter

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: People, Flags, Who We Are, Confederate Flag

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

- Jack LaLanne

source: Jack Lalanne (2008). “Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness and Finance: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Why Not, Who We Are, Matter

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

- Jacob Needleman

topic: Mirrors, Culture, Who We Are

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

- James Green

topic: Important, Who We Are

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

- James Heckman

source: "It Pays to Invest in Early Education Says a Nobel Economist Who Boosts Kids’ IQ". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. February 22, 2013.

topic: Giving, Who We Are, Way

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

- James Lee Burke

source: James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tragedy, Skins, Who We Are

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

- Jan Phillips

topic: Who We Are, Way, Autobiography

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

- Janine Benyus

source: Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.8, Harper Collins

topic: Nature, Who We Are, Tools

Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.

- Jean Kilbourne

source: "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.

topic: Important, Normalcy, Who We Are, Concept Of Love

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

- Jean Vanier

source: Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.35, Paulist Press

topic: Identity, Want, Who We Are

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

- Jean Vanier

topic: Who We Are, Moments, Moments In Our Lives

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are...

- Jeff Kinney

topic: Choices, Who We Are

the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

- Jenny Lawson

topic: Want, Who We Are, Today

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

- Jim Bunning

topic: Agriculture, Kentucky, Who We Are, Commonwealth, Family Farms

We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

- Jo Nesbo

topic: Who We Are

Running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.

- Joan Benoit

topic: Running, Feet, Who We Are

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

- John Perkins

source: John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Fate, Choices, Who We Are, Twist Of Fate

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

- Jon Meacham

topic: Law, Liberty, Who We Are

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

- Jonathan Carroll

topic: People, Get Better, Who We Are

The way we spend our time defines who we are.

- Jonathan Estrin

topic: Positivity, Who We Are, Way

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

- Jonny Greenwood

source: "Sound and fury" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2000.

topic: Who We Are, Brilliant, Radiohead

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

- Josh Groban

topic: Feelings, Who We Are, Matter

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

- Joshua Foer

topic: Who We Are, Remember, Function

What makes most of us who we are, most of all, is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

- Joshua Prager

source: "In search of the man who broke my neck". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.

topic: Mind, Body, Who We Are

Worship helps us find who we are and why God has placed us here on the earth. When we bow in God's presence with worship, only then are we made complete.

- Judson Cornwall

topic: Earth, Who We Are, Bows, God's Presence

We are who we are, beÂcause of those we choose to love and beÂcause of those who love us.

- Kate Mosse

topic: Who We Are, Causes

Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.

- Katherine Applegate

topic: Memories, Who We Are, Helping

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

- Katherine Center

topic: Struggle, Who We Are, Faces

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

- Kathleen Norris

topic: Who We Are, Essentials, Tasks, Daily Tasks

Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.

- Katrina Kenison

source: Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.67, Hachette UK

topic: Growth, Who We Are, Transformation

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

- Ken Burns

topic: Past, History, Who We Are

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

- Ken Burns

topic: Views, Who We Are

If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.

- Khalil Gibran Muhammad

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: People, Generations, Who We Are, Passing On

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

- Kyan Douglas

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

topic: Who We Are, Path, Quiet, Straight Path

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

- Lara St. John

topic: Art, Who We Are, Next, Performing Well

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

- Laverne Cox

topic: Who We Are, Gender, Born

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

- Leszek Kolakowski

source: Leszek Kolakowski (1997). “Modernity on Endless Trial”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

topic: Order, Who We Are, Succeed

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

- Liz Curtis Higgs

topic: Who We Are, Matter, Becoming

We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

- Lorenzo Carcaterra

source: Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Street Boys”, p.122, Ballantine Books

topic: Who We Are

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Success, Who We Are, Outliers

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

- Mari Evans

source: Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

topic: Trying, Who We Are, Language

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inner Peace, Who We Are, Want, Spiritual Wisdom, Just Be Yourself

The soul is the truth of who we are.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Soul, Who We Are

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Long, Purpose, Who We Are

Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.

- Marie Forleo

topic: Who We Are, Humans, True Worth

Attitude will always define who we are in life.

- Mark A. Brennan

topic: Attitude, Who We Are

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

- Mark Nepo

source: Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.11, Conari Press

topic: Who We Are, Born, Obligation

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

- Marlena De Blasi

source: Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.34, Ballantine Books

topic: Children, Green, Who We Are

We're all who we are endlessly.

- Marlena De Blasi

source: Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.265, Ballantine Books

topic: Who We Are

In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment.

- Marva Dawn

topic: Discipline, Care, Who We Are, Health Problems

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

- Mary E. Pearson

topic: Dream, Dark, Who We Are, Dark Places, Dark Thoughts

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

- Mary E. Pearson

source: Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.113, Macmillan

topic: Differences, Details, Who We Are

In violence, we forget who we are

- Mary McCarthy

source: On the Contrary (1961) "Characters in Fiction "

topic: Violence, Who We Are, Forget

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

- Mary Schmich

topic: Movie, Who We Are, Function

That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.

- Matt Hasselbeck

topic: Running, Successful, Who We Are

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

- Matthew Knisely

source: Matthew Knisely (2014). “Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Letting Go, Who We Are, Moments

Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

- Meg Cabot

source: FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from Mar 20, 2013

topic: Risk, Want, Who We Are

You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.

- Megan McCafferty

source: Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.337, Broadway Books

topic: Heart, Thinking, Who We Are

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

- Megan McCafferty

topic: Who We Are, Tales