Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are."
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Who We Are
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Cornel West
Philosopher
"We are who we are because somebody loved us."
Angelina Jolie
Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
"Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are"
Thomas Keller
Chef, Restaurateur
"Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do."
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"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."
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"It is only our deeds that reveal who we are."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves."
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"At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were."
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"The things we love tell us who we are."
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"Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are."
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"We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us."
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"Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings."
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"One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are"
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"We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not."
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"Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do."
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"Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are."
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"Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared."
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"And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us."
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"We are who we are because of who we were"
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"Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment."
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