Who We Really Are Quotes

On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were. — Jerry Spinelli

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are. — Charles De Lint

Wisdom is the way God thinks. This wisdom is revealed to us when we seek to know who we really are within. our (divine true self). — Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue. — Ellen DeGeneres

We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are. — M. Scott Peck

Isn't it a blessing when the Lord shows us the path to who we really are? — Jamison Green

How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them? — Nico J. Genes

It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal — Martha Finley

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people. — Christina Ricci

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are. — Richard Madden

I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are. — Dee White

only our choices show who we really are — J.K. Rowling

Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core. — Afnan Ahmad Mia

despair evaporates when we stop denying who we really are and attempt to uncover and accept our true nature. — Nigel Benson

You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure. — Edward T. Welch

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming. — David A. Bednar

Sometimes this world is like red fences in the snow. There ain't no hiding who we really are. — Tiffany McDaniel

We all really do contradict ourselves and contain multitudes. How do we even figure out who we really are? — Jenn Bennett

Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are. — Piero Ferrucci

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are. — George A. Sheehan

The past is done, and we can't change it. All we can do is try to be better. What really matters is who you are now. — Cindi Madsen

When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house. — Leonor Varela

There are things in life that happen that change who we are, things that are hard to come back from, and in the end we never really are the same. — Jessica Sorensen

Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are. — T.D. Jakes

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.

Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective. — Mark Batterson

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are. — Debbie Ford

That's the thing about the places we come from - they probably say the least about who we really are than anything. — Rebecca Serle

The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do. — Andre Iguodala

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension. — David Deida

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are. — Chris Abani

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are. — Naomi Alderman

The past is done. It's really about who we are now. — Curtis Bunn

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most. — Rosamunde Pilcher

I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of — Colleen Hoover

Who we really are shows up between extending the olive branch and waiting to see if it is received. — Bonnie Lyn Smith

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want
most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray. — Megan Hart

It is quite interesting to discover who we really are. It might take some time, but eventually we do. — Alexandra Kinias

We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are. — Nenia Campbell

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really. — Jonny Greenwood

Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first ... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want. — Robert Kiyosaki

It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are. — Shiri Appleby

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe. — Marianne Williamson

Our past doesn't define us, rather, it's the courses we take after that tells us who we really are. — Jocelyn Sanchez

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents. — Gurinder Chadha

How could we have found, who we really are, without education? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are. — Peter Shepherd

Attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas — Maggie Nelson

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are. — Russell M. Nelson

Who we are now is all that really matters. — Amy Joy

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be. — Ellen Page

It's really nice to have someone who's intelligent and articulate to talk to about what you're doing, because it's a big part of who we are. — Chris Pratt

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. — Jean Vanier

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are. — James MacDonald

It's strange how different we all appear to who we really are. — Sarah Pinborough

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are. — Krishna Das

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers. — Marc Guggenheim

In silence we can discover who we really are and find peace. — Colin Albin

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools. — Frederick Lenz

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together. My gut clenches at the reference to the way my — Lisa Renee Jones

Consciousness is who we really are; thoughts, feelings, and emotions are passing and temporary, but consciousness is existence. — Belsebuub

True freedom has to do with the human spirit - it is the freedom to be who we really are. — Miguel Ruiz

Covenants with God help us to know who we really are. — Jean A. Stevens

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. — Eleanor Roosevelt

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts. — Fred Rogers

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really? — Ram Dass

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us! — David Trumble

There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that. — Sara Bareilles

I found myself wondering about her as I wondered about myself. Who are we really? Are we who we are at our worst, or at our best? — Randall Wallace

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are. — Jack Kornfield

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do. — Annette Bening

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are. — Mark Epstein

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are. — Elizabeth Lesser

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go. — John Cameron Mitchell

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are. — Jack Kornfield

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of. — Howard Schultz

It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are. — Penelope Douglas

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are. — Barry Humphries

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world. — Bill Hicks

It's funny how people who we fight with the most at the end of day are the ones that really got your back. — Jasmine V

We spend so much time on the whole world instead of on those who really need us, in a world where rumours are a trend and truth is an afterthought. — Pandora Poikilos

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are. — Norman Jewison

Every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are. — Elizabeth Lesser

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free. — Henry David Thoreau

Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed. — Emma Cline

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma. — Frederick Lenz

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually. — Hugo Weaving

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve. — Andrew Cohen

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way. — Famke Janssen

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are. — Alice Hoffman

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run — E. M. Forster

We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there. — Neil Young

Perhaps the greatest gift an animal has to offer is a permanent reminder of who we really are. — Nick Trout

Sometimes it takes the love of others to show us who we really are. — Renee Carlino

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

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is. — Deepak Chopra

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are. — Richard Paul Evans

Every change is a challenge to become who we really are. — Marianne Williamson