Selves Quotes

496 quotes by 395 authors

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. — Mary Pipher
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves.… — Gail Godwin
Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the… — William Bradford
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander… — Natalie Goldberg
When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. — Steven Pressfield
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest… — Steven Pressfield
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are… — Langston Hughes
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important. — Paul Strand
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves The stages of… — Erwin Schrodinger
Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish. — James Van Praagh
To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our… — Robin Sharma
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not… — Mary Astell
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. — Steve House
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced… — A. R. Ammons
Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to… — Neil Clark Warren
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? — Antonio Damasio
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our… — Antonio Damasio
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or… — Homi K. Bhabha
If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their… — Ellen Willis
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy… — C. Wright Mills

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