Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 400 authors

How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it… — Craig Davidson
As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or… — Rick Poynor
Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to… — Kenny Smith
First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You… — Edgar Cayce
It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the… — Rene Dubos
We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we… — Daniel Gilbert
To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would… — Colson Whitehead
When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England. — Hilaire Belloc
By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The core of my personality consists of many selves. — Hans Bender
Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming… — Henri Nouwen
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and… — Henri Nouwen
Boys' connectionsâ€”to other people and to their selvesâ€”can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and… — Judy Chu
One has to kill a few of oneâ€™s natural selves to let the rest grow â€” a very painful slaughter of innocents. — Henry Sidgwick
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be… — James MacGregor Burns
Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves. — Brian Johnson
We crave a world of either/or, but the Dream says, Both/and. We build a wall between our social persona and our inner selves; the Dream… — Marc Ian Barasch
All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should… — Andrew Solomon
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels;… — Barbara Pym
We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can… — Melody Beattie

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