Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 400 authors

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. — Vernon Howard
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our… — Deepak Chopra
I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of… — Audre Lorde
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves. — Carre Otis
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our… — Anais Nin
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on… — Joseph Glanvill
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves. — Bill Viola
There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger… — John Caird
...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which… — E E Cummings
True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We… — William Penn
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker… — Henry Ward Beecher
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we… — Maximilian Kolbe
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our… — Eric Hoffer
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.… — Thomas Merton
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;… — John Updike
I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain? Pain and not… — Cheryl Rainfield
Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying… — Thandie Newton
In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react… — David Morrissey

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