Who We Are Quotes

“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are.”
― C.J. Heck

“But we aren’t defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.”
― Sonia Choquette

“A worthy relationship is an agreement that challenges and supports both participants.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“...we're only ever our true selves when we think we are alone.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Allow what is to be.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“This attitude of judging each other by our “jobs” is to ignore and deny who we really are.”
― David Icke, I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom

“But as much as I tried, I couldn't forget my past. The events that had shaped me continued to weigh on my soul.”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“Life is the fundamental essence of all reality. It doesn’t emerge, and it never dies. Life simply is. It’s the inherent quality of everything that is or is not. Under certain conditions, life awakens, and we call it living. But eventually all living forms decay and through so-called death, life transforms back into its elementary stage; the infinite potential for expression. We comprehend such transition as dying, but death is just a term we invented to mark the end of living. Everything that is born and dies is an expression of so-called absolute Life, which exists as a continuum in everything, everywhere, always, and on all levels, forever seeking new ways of becoming alive. We should, therefore, replace the popular saying “it’s all about life and death” with “it’s all about birth and death, while life is eternal.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book about Who We Are: Book One: First Steps to Self-Discovery

“Everything you do gives a clue about yourself! The clothes you wear, the books you read, the cars you drive, the songs you listen, the streets you love, everything you do is you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Due to brain plasticity, whatever actions we do and thoughts we have either solidify existing neuronal connections or create new ones. If you’ve reinforced a thought pattern or habit for years or decades, it can seem like it’s just “who you are.” But it’s just a well-reinforced network in your brain — it can be overwritten.”
― Kevin Espiritu

“When a song is ended, it leaves nothing but a feeling in those who heard it until that feeling, slowly moving backwards in time, collapses under pressure from more recent feelings and is replaced. Events become memories, unreliable stories, fade away at the ends. Unconnected and distinct from the day's experience, they become one of the millions of strata that make us who we are. We are the sum of all our experiences. We are waves on the ocean, interacting with and affected by all the other waves that move and die and are washed up on the shore. We are each a breath, a song, a flower. We are time itself, and mine has been long and I've collected many disconnected layers.”
― Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

“I used to tell myself that I regretted the choices I'd made in my life. But every choice, including the wrong ones, made me who I was... -both the good and bad experiences strengthened you, shaped you. We are not just made of blood and bone- we are made of stories. Some of us have our stories told for us, other write their own- you wrote yours.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“We are who we are in large part because of where we are and when we are. But lives of courage and consequence remap the locus of spirit and possibility for generations to come.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“I'm pure positive energy, deliberately choosing contrast for expansion.
Not just contrast for my expansion.
Contrast for the expansion of the Universe, at large!
Contrast for the expansion of the Source, within me.
Leading-edge contrast, for leading-edge expansion.”
― Esther Hicks

“Nous sommes aussi l'ensemble des fantômes qui nous hantent... nous sommes plusieurs personnages en un, si convaincants dans les différents rôles que nous avons assumés qu'il nous est impossible de savoir lequel nous avons été vraiment, lequel nous sommes devenus, lequel nous survivra.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

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― Ramona I.

“...if the philosopher Françoise Baylis is right– if identity is something we work out in constant conversation with the rest of the world, a kind of story we tell, shaped by our beliefs and desires and fact-checked and validated by others–then the only person who could have said who [anyone] is [that person].”
― Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are

“But we both know that whatever comes our way, we'll greet it with a smile and a barely half-formed plan. It's who we are, still spontaneous and slightly crazy but together, no matter what.”
― Lauren Landish, My Big Fat Fake Honeymoon

“Take away memory—the sense of who we are—and human beings revert to animal behavior," Ryter says. "And animals are easier to exterminate than humans.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“When you have watched someone from childhood, you know them. You know what they came with, even if you don’t like it. Young children don’t pretend to be something they are not. They don’t even know how to. They only know what they are.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“To find meaning in life, one need not search too far; for true freedom lies in accepting what is and who we are.”
― Jo P. Helm, Life is Meaningless and That's Okay: Embracing Your Existential Freedom

“We spend a lot of time figuring out where we’re supposed to be instead of who we’re supposed to be.”
― Dannika Dark, Evildoer

“English: "Our whole life is based on some answer to the question of who we are, even if we don't think about it."

Česky: „Celý náš život je založený na nějaké z odpovědí na otázku, kdo jsme, i když o tom nepřemýšlíme.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“I am simply another deeply imperfect seeker, a single fellow spark of the great divine flame, who is engaging this extreme human experience - like you!”
― Christian Sundberg, A Walk in the Physical: Understanding the Human Experience Within the Larger Spiritual Context

“Nat says that fashion is history: that clothes aren't just materials we wear, but they become a part of who we are, who we have been and who we will be.”
― Holly Smale, Forever Geek

“We will not be characters in our stories. Not villains, not victims, not even heros. We are authors of our lives. We write our own daring endings. We craft love from heartbreak, compassion from shame, grace from disappointment, courage from failure. Showing up is our power. Story is our way home. Truth is our song. We are the brave and broken hearted. We are rising strong.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution