A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
William James

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Mary Pipher

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.
Nina Hagen

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Nick Cave

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
Brigitte Bardot

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
John Le Carre

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
Dirk Benedict

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
George H. Mead

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
John Doerr

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
T. S. Eliot

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
Mary Astell

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Gore Vidal

Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.
Wilhelm Wundt

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
A. R. Ammons

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee