Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 382 authors

Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place.… — Jerry Spinelli
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves — George Eliot
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world… — Alain de Botton
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre
I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a childâ€™s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy.… — E L Doctorow
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."… — John Fowles
â€¦we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people. — Philip K. Dick
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us weâ€™re wrong. Someone we… — David Levithan
It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe… — Denise Levertov
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing! — Edmond Rostand
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we… — Elisabeth Elliot
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best. — J M Coetzee
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs. — Jonathan Franzen
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. — Betty Smith
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them — Miyamoto Musashi
Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other. — Louisa May Alcott
Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others… — Mary Doria Russell
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development… — Norman Vincent Peale
You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you… — Connie Willis

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