Quotes and Sayings About Who We Are
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To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
-- A. H. Almaas -
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
-- Adam Braun -
We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.
-- Adyashanti -
Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.
-- Aidan of Lindisfarne -
the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that
-- Alanis Morissette -
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
-- Alex Haley -
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 -
I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?
-- Alexandra Potter -
What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
-- Alice Steinbach -
This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
-- Allen West -
God uses us in spite of who we are, not because of it.
-- Andrew Wommack -
When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.
-- Angeles Arrien -
Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
-- Anita Hill -
I understood that at the core, our essence is made of pure love. We are pure love-every single one of us. How can we not be, if we come from the Whole and return to it? I knew that realizing this meant never being afraid of who we are. Therefore, being love and being our true self is one and the same thing!
-- Anita Moorjani -
In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together.
-- Anita Moorjani -
What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.
-- Anita Moorjani -
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.
-- Anna Funder -
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 -
There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
-- Anthony Marra -
It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
-- Austin Kleon -
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
-- Ayad Akhtar -
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
-- Barbara Kruger -
When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.
-- Beth Moore -
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 -
We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.
-- Bill Laimbeer -
What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling
-- Bob Hoskins
