Who We Are Quotes

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

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

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

Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are.

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.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

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!

Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.

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.

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.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

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

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

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

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

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

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

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

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

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

We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

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

The way we spend our time defines who we are.

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.

There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become.

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.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.

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

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

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

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

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.

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

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.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

How we survive, is what makes us who we are.

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

Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

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.

It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.