Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 382 authors

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it… — Rob Bell
Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last… — Alice Miller
Our lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to attend to our emotional selves and to learn new ways of being… — Susan L. Taylor
I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves. — Dominique Dawes
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history. — Paulo Freire
Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape… — Ellen Sussman
We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here… — Gordon Livingston
I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person… — Sue Thoele
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the… — Marva Dawn
Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great… — Elizabeth A. Johnson
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. — Frederick Lenz
Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go. — Frederick Lenz
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught;… — William Hughes Mearns
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness… — Eric Hoffer
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What… — Eric Hoffer
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. — Virginia Woolf
We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When… — Sidney Jourard
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is… — Julia Cameron

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