Who We Are Quotes - Page 9

The soul is the truth of who we are.

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

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.

People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

We all have trials and tribulations and that shows who we are as a person.

Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in.

A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.

Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are.

Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.