Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 382 authors

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed… — Aimee Bender
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is… — BrenÃ© Brown
Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice… — BrenÃ© Brown
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent… — George Eliot
Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves. — Deb Caletti
We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. — Ian Mcewan
Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise… — Hillary Clinton
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own conceptâ€”our own selvesâ€”that we love. — Fernando Pessoa
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to… — Susan Sontag
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities… — Kevin Kelly
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If… — Haruki Murakami
Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the… — Frank Lentricchia
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our… — Glen Duncan
Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every… — Joyce Meyer
We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good… — Patti Smith
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… — Fernando Pessoa
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our… — Alain de Botton
In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our… — Susanna Kaysen

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