We Are Who We Are Quotes

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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

When someone says "I Love You," it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are."
When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.)
"We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are ~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

The purity message is not about sex. Rather, it is about us: who we are, who we are expected to be, and who it is said we will become if we fail to meet those expectations.
This is the language of shame. ~ Linda Kay Klein

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

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

And when you love people, you hate the fact that they're being treated unfairly. You tell the truth. You sacrifice your popularity for integrity. There is a willingness to give your life back to the people given that, in the end, they basically gave it to you, because we are who we are because somebody loved us anyway. ~ Cornel West

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are. ~ Aleister Crowley

We are who we are. I have no desire to be something else. But right now I'm afraid of what it means for those who I care about. ~ Andrea Cremer

We are who we are because of who we were ~ Vanilla Ice

There is no light at the end of the tunnel for us. We are who we are. ~ Isaiyan Morrison

The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life. ~ David Spangler

It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are. ~ Maya Harris

The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are. ~ Nate Berkus

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

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are. ~ Debbie Ford

Know your self package to the core. Never lose the strength of assets, your values, what identifies and separates you, what makes you unique. No, you or I are perfect but we are who we are now and we should continue to move towards that better person God sees us to be. ~ Eveth Colley

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired? ~ Mira Bartok

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

We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are. ~ R.C. Sproul Jr.

The Best Love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your failures and in spite of your shortcomings. We are who we are, all we have to be is the best we are and rise from that point. Nobody can dictate who you are supposed to be, unless you give them that power. Embrace who you are and embrace those who love you "AS IS" Sharlene R. Prince, The Royalty Mindset Coach ~ Sharlene R. Prince

A masquerade is supposed to be a chance to put on a different face, isn't it? An opportunity to be someone else for a few hours. Yet I can't seem to manage it. I'm still me, beneath the mask."
"I know what you mean." Gabe was still himself beneath the armor, too. An interloper among the aristocrats. Unwelcome. Inadequate. "We are who we are, I suppose."
"We are who we are," she agreed.
Gabe despised the defeated note in her voice. He liked who she was, beneath the mask. And when he was in her company, he almost liked who he was, too. The idea that anyone would overlook her made him vaguely furious. ~ Tessa Dare

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are. ~ Laura Schlessinger

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. ~ Stephen Chbosky

We are who we are and that's all we're ever going to be. ~ Jacob Ozan

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

Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance. ~ Gabrielle Roth

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are. ~ George O. Wood

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are. ~ Austin Kleon

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are. ~ Brenda Shoshanna

All history is the same thing over and over ... The technology may change, but the behavior is still human. We are who we are. Individuals learn, grow up, get better, wiser, stronger, healthier, kinder - or the opposite. As a group, though, we keep inventing the same behaviors. Some work, some don't. ~ Orson Scott Card

I was recalling that other world in which it had thrilled me, in a way, the surprise of thinking that I could be a person who would betray Daniel. Now I wondered if Daniel could surprise himself, could surprise me, by being such a person too. Would he let himself do such a thing? I didn't think so. And then I wondered: Is it by will, then, that we are who we are? Do we decide, do we make ourselves, after a certain point in life?
I tried to call up the moment when I had decided I could be such a person. It seemed to me I hadn't quite got there, not really. That I was still just playing with the idea of it when the ground shifted under me. But perhaps to play with such an idea was already to be a certain kind of person.
~ Sue Miller

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers. ~ Rahul Dravid

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it. ~ Steven Pressfield

We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are. ~ Lenny Kravitz

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

What I've learned from these long voyages of ours is that, in the end, we all strive for our own good. It does not matter what race we are, who we are… We have that one thing in common – the wish to live this life the best way possible. Hence, our definitions of 'good' and 'bad' always remain subjective – no matter how many perspectives we consider, no matter how objective we try to be, we still judge according to our own beliefs, principles, and opinions – things that we develop throughout our entire life. In truth, nothing is either 'good' or 'bad' but is both good and bad, all at the same time, depending on the perspective and the relation with other matters. This world is much more versatile than we thought it was. The only universal truth is the energy of life and love – the unending circle, and the undying emotion – interconnected for eternity. Life bears love, and love bears life. Hence, I believe that whatever era may come, major concepts shall never change. We should pave our way and live to our content, staying harmonious with ourselves, because in the end, we shall never know what is right and what is wrong. We interrelate just like the tiniest substances – molecules, atoms, etc. – and the biggest substances – planets, galaxies, universes… During these interrelations, there shall be unions as well as collisions, destructions as well as creations… As long as we live, there shall be both oppositions and friendships. There shall be peace, there shall be war, and then ~ Tamuna Tsertsvadze

Alex Riley and I will be driving from live event to live event and if Ke$ha comes on it is blasted throughout the entire car and we are singing at the top of our lungs. So if you ever see A-Ry and me in a car you might catch us in an embarrassing moment of two 30-year-old grown men screaming 'You know we're Superstars.' We are who we are. DJ turn it up up up. ~ The Miz

It's our flaws who make us who we are. ~ Doug Stanhope

It is what it is and we are who we are and no measure of hope or time wasted wishing, will ever make it never so. ~ Nicole Lyons

The one thing the terrorists cannot do
not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them
they cannot change who we are. ~ Colin Powell

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

Where we are is vital to who we are, ~ Eric Weiner

The future gets no say in who we are. ~ Buddy Wakefield

We don't have to apologize for who we are ~ Pauline Marois

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities. ~ Linda Thompson

We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be. ~ Orson Scott Card

Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are. ~ Robert McAfee Brown

It's hard: we are who we are because of the choices we made. You can't turn back the clock; you can only be more careful about what you do in the future. ~ Louisa De Lange

Cities don't change people. People don't even change people. We are who we are. ~ Hank Moody

True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want. ~ Paget Brewster

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

We cannot control the temperaments we are born with; they are God's choice. We can work with the Holy Spirit to achieve balance, but basically we are who we are. ~ Joyce Meyer

Pretty's just a pretty word. ~ Little Mix

We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people. And for me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us. ~ Roger Ebert

We are who we are. ~ Mihai Emilian Popa

We are who we are because somebody loved us. ~ Cornel West

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

When we see Christ for who He is He then tells us who we are. ~ Bradley Cooper

God's ways may seem strange to us, but his ways do not have to live up to our standards or our analysis. He is who he is, and we are who we are. He is beyond error, perfect in all his ways. If his ways confuse or disappoint you, guard against the temptation to re-create him into a god you like better. You and I are to humble ourselves before him and seek to conform to his standard, not the other way around. He is sovereign and good, compassionate and merciful. If we do not accept God in his wholeness, we will never experience our own. ~ Jennifer Rothschild

You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner. ~ Carnie Wilson

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

We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business. ~ David Louis Edelman

Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls- which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow old, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them, don't you think? ~ Donna Tartt

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation.
(Defy the Space That Separates, The Nation, October 7, 1996) ~ Adrienne Rich

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be. ~ Helen Mirren

We are ready to turn and twist the facts until they bear no resemblance to the original thing. ~ C.S. Lewis

As women, we are continuously told to live in the cracks of a world shaped by and for men, without complaining or demanding. Without being angry. So we adapt, and when we do, we use familiar minimizing expressions to describe what we feel: 'It was annoying.' 'I was so frustrated.' 'I can't believe he said that.' 'I'm so disappointed. ~ Soraya Chemaly

We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity. ~ Debasish Mridha

[Barack] Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist. ~ Alan Keyes

We are products of the past and we live immersed in the past, which encompasses us. How can we move towards the new life, how create new activities without getting out of the past and without placing ourselves above it? And how can we place ourselves above the past if we are in it and it is in us? There is no other way out except through thought, which does not break off relations with the past but rises ideally above it and converts it into knowledge. ~ Benedetto Croce

What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means to freedom. He taught that it is not essential to salvation to retire from the world, but only to renounce the self. He taught that work done with no selfish interest purifies the mind and that duties are opportunities afforded to man to sink his separate self and become one with the universal self. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

We are barely conscious. With a higher consciousness we can open the door between infinite possibilities. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark within him. Such characterizations infer that man possesses great abilities and potentials. We are frequently admonished to develop our capabilities, reach out, and set high goals for ourselves. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

Our eyes are meant to show us food when we are hungry, not to make us hungry when we see food. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are loads of people like us. We are all here because we like it here or are married to Britons or both. If I may say so, you are a little more cosmopolitan, possibly even a little more dynamic and productive, sometimes even more adorable and gorgeous, because we are here with you. If you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot. And, ~ Bill Bryson

Perfection is, however, not to be sought in the future, as we are fully capable of experiencing it here and now, if we abandon ourselves into the present moment and allow the pleasure of Existence take us with it. ~ Frank M. Wanderer

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God. ~ Oswald Chambers

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are really the victims of our own problems. ~ Jimmy Greaves

We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true
if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred
all those things
you will find those too. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. ~ Abraham Lincoln

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are. ~ Matt Haig

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world ... We adjust to change. ~ Dan Rather

When I look at you, I don't just see your face.
I see my entire future. I see our marriage.
I see our children. I see us fighting. I see us making up. I see us growing old together.
In my version of the future, we are quite lucky.
Because I even see us dying together.
I see my forever in you." - Dev Singham ~ M.V. Kasi

To all the vegetarians/vegans just because a tomato doesn't scream when you pluck it off it's tree doesn't mean it doesn't feel as all other living creatures do. Saying that animals have the right of life is saying that plants do not have the same right. We are all living creatures within the spectrum of the universe and all part of a food chain. We humans just happen to be on the top of the food chain. So eat what you will in order to sustain life and do not worry whether it is a plant or animal for both have been stripped from their families and killed in order so we can live. Eat hardy, eat healthy, and eat what you want!!! ~ Kenneth G. Ortiz

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

I think prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experimental way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness. We move from an individual, isolated making-things-happen kind of consciousness to a connection on the deepest level with the largest possible reality. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are. ~ Romesh Gunesekera

With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others. ~ Michelle Gielan

We are so keen in our #pursuitofhappiness that we forget to be #happy!! ~ Twinkle Varshney

We can't pick our families or where we come from, Jet. All we can choose is who we want to become in spite of them, and because of them. ~ Jay Crownover

The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

We are all like seasons. We change when it's time. ~ Neha Kaushik