Best 140 quotes in «who we are quotes» category

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.

Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.

That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

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

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for 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.

The next time you see a Muslim or Sikh at the airport, don't judge us - sympathize with us. Understand our humiliation every time we're pulled to the side for additional screenings simply because of who we are.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

The way we spend our time defines who we are.

The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.

We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.

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

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

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.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

Absolute truth is the way it is.

Absence of disease is “NOT” good health.

Above all, the path of happiness embodies two qualities: success and gratitude. Success in the simple sense of striving for something and achieving it, and gratitude for being thankful for that which we have achieved. In simple words, happiness comes from our ongoing success in, and gratefulness for, being who we truly are.

All growth is essentially an expansion of awareness.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

Aging is inevitable but growing old is a choice.

A lasting peace cannot be achieved through force.

Alert presence is the garden of personal growth.

All division is created in and by the mind.

All conflict in the world is essentially about our differences in measurement.

All dissatisfaction arises from expectation.

All moral judgment is ultimately about the direction toward better or worse, never an absolute truth or fact.

Allowing, not forcing, is the way of the truth.

Allow what is to be.

All progress must, and can only be, based on truth: the way it is.

All events and people you have cherished in the past, and all events and people that are yet to happen to you, exist at all times. This for sure beats the traditional concept of heaven!

All happiness happens in the Now. Therefore, how we interpret every passing moment is one of the most crucial choices we make.

All personal change begins within.