Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 382 authors

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the… — Richard Bach
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is… — Gore Vidal
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When… — Dalai Lama
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we… — Katrina Kenison
She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg,… — Anne Tyler
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or… — Ian Mcewan
No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more… — Margaret Atwood
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;… — Andre Malraux
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion. — Stephen King
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.… — Diane Ackerman
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their… — Anne Fadiman
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. — Neal Shusterman
You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good.… — Jean Ferris
â€¦Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… — Michael Ondaatje
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the… — Fernando Pessoa
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only… — Helen Keller
Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're… — Deepak Chopra

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