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Defining Ourselves Quotes

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Geneen Roth
Numbers, Soul, Defining Ourselves
Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

Frederick Lenz
Buddhism, Balance, Defining Ourselves

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Emma Watson
Defining Ourselves, Who We Are, Defining
United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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