Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 382 authors

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
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… — Jaron Lanier
People will always show their true selves in the end. — Leona Lewis
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.… — Wynton Marsalis
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… — Bryant H. McGill
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. — Thomas Merton
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God… — Henri Nouwen
You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones,… — Susan Orlean
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. — Gore Vidal
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. — Rowan Williams
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. — Jeanette Winterson
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,… — William Wordsworth
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of… — Julian Baggini
We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be… — Charlie Pierce
I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation;… — Pam Houston
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and… — Virginia Woolf
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married… — Jeanette Winterson
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into… — W. E. B. Du Bois

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