Selves Quotes

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

Death, Live, Spiritual

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

Him, Social, Recognize

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton

Real, Choices, Deepest

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

Time, Space, Objects

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
William Wordsworth

Business, Tired, Long

Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Sorry, Road, Both

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

Another, Less, Name

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

Love, Wild, Hearts

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

Become, Vision, Picture

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

Best, Live, May

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
Bryant H. McGill

Hope, Truth, Matter

You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.
Susan Orlean

Crazy, Smart, Thinking

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson

Felt, Separate, Writes

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

Marriage, Happiness, Best

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Time, Nothing

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

Whole, Service, Picture

People will always show their true selves in the end.
Leona Lewis

True, End, Show

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.
Jaron Lanier

Forget, Before, America

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

Good, Women, Men

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.
Carre Otis

Freedom, Personal, Lives

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

True, Find, Wish

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
Laura Marling

Understand, Quite, Inner

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.
Elizabeth Berkley

Best, Give, Able

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
George H. Mead

Good, Personal, Public

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

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
Smokey Robinson

Spiritual, Sometimes, Worry

When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.
Guy Finley

Life, Truth, Nothing

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Rowan Williams

Life, Find, Shall

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Lionel Trilling

Society, Self, Through

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