“How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.” — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
“I love all of myself in all ways for all time. I am made of pure love, and it permeates all of… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Allowing ourselves to show our vulnerability is how we make human connections. If we’re not showing other people our true selves, our… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning… — Raphael Copy Share Image
“Express to our world what is alive inside us not what their world says we should be… Our true selves should never… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“If anything is taught here, it is simply the charting of the life of someone who started out to somewhere—and went. I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself. It is a place full of… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“And it isn't enough for us to identify with our selves, it is necessary to do so passionately, to the point of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and make a… — William James Copy Share Image
“(Quoted in Dennis Okholm's Monk Habits for Everyday People ) Settle down in your room at a moment when you have nothing… — Anthony Bloom Copy Share Image
“It was an alarming thought that these false selves should still have me in their power, and in my bewilderment I began… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been a slow learner in some areas of my life.mostly the areas known as myself. Or maybe I should say… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“One way of approaching the question about what makes a human being the same person over time would be to point out… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“i’ve arrived at a sort of emancipation moment. one that allows me to cultivate joy and pleasure in ways that feel liberatory.… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
