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"This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out."
"Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are."
"We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves."
"If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations."
"Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are."
"I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'"
"We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you."
"Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are."
"The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are."
"Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world."
"If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom."
"From the Nonphysical, you created you, and now from the physical, you continue to create - and we are nothing if we are not flow-ers of Energy. We must have objects of attention, that are ringing our bells, in order to feel the fullness of who we are - flowing through us - for the continuation of All-That-Is. That is what puts the eternalness in eternity."
"You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner."
"If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences."
"Love is who we are without our stories."
"We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are."
"Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be."
"I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people."
"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."
"Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are."
