Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 400 authors

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen… — Paul Auster
I have to live with both my selves as best I may. — Brigitte Bardot
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… — Dirk Benedict
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… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Our ideals are our better selves. — Amos Bronson Alcott
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… — Nick Cave
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
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster… — Octavio Paz
It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions… — John Climacus
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. — Dogen
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to… — Samuel Henry Miller
Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that… — Diane Ackerman
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old… — Anne Roiphe
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for… — Albert Einstein
Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little… — Swami Vivekananda
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all.… — Albert Einstein

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