Who We Are Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

The way we spend our time defines who we are.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

If life is to have meaning, and if God's will is to be done, all of us have to accept who we are and what we are, give it back to God, and thank Him for the way He made us. What I am is God's gift to me; what I do with it is my gift to Him.

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.

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

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.

The things we love tell us who we are.