Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality. . . We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?
I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention
It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.
We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- It´s not where we live- but how we live that defines us. It´s our actions that are remembered long after we are gone.
Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are
He who defines the terms, controls the debate.
Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
You're entitled in this country to worship as you please or to not worship. It's one of the great things that defines us as a nation, and it's at the heart of what it is to be in America.
How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.
The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.