We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves. — William James Copy Share Image
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves. — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light. — Suki Waterhouse Copy Share Image
“People often reveal their innermost selves in the most innocent of situations.” — Abhishek Ratna Copy Share Image
“If we were all our most real and raw selves every moment of the day things would be just awful. The world… — Kelly Williams Brown Copy Share Image
“In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece,… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in… — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“In the West, there have been many pre-twentieth century configurations of the self...Each of these selves are part of the heritage of… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
“We cannot run from our true selves, Herr Wyatt. Deep down inside, the person within us knows what it wants to be.… — Ernest Dempsey Copy Share Image
“Society is a machine of machines, a system that runs on precondition, customs, rules and laws that are either expressed openly or… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics,… — Rick Poynor Copy Share Image
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different,… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“Some of being an adult, though, is about protecting and preserving what we discover to be the best parts of ourselves, and… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Perdu saw Ida’s pain flickering in her eyes, saw that the red-haired woman was struggling to embrace a new future that felt… — Nina George Copy Share Image
“I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“We parents are in the process of losing parts of ourselves, of waking up each morning to find ourselves changed by our… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. Now I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“These selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The conflict stirred up by new ideas can be so devastating only because so much of human life is lived in the… — Kathleen Taylor Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I was trying to break out of my skin, thinking about how my parents had been actors in roles and… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
