Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 382 authors

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it,… — Clay Shirky
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we… — Maya Angelou
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means… — Katherine Paterson
Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever… — Thomas S. Monson
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is… — Joyce Carol Oates
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never… — Toni Morrison
We crave permission openly to become our secret selves. — Salman Rushdie
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women… — Libba Bray
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives… — C.S. Lewis
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and… — Toni Morrison
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though… — John Milton
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of… — John Gray
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice… — Annie Proulx
Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. — Christopher Moore
Youâ€™ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits.… — Libba Bray
Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing… — Sebastian Faulks
The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out… — Frederick Buechner
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone… — Margaret George

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