Selves Quotes

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We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves — Smokey Robinson
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives… — Christian Wiman
Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values. — Alice Herz-Sommer
If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our… — Nathaniel Cotton
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night… — Nancy Mairs
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. — George H. Mead
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where… — Lewis Buzbee
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. — Alain de Botton
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of… — Eric Hoffer
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies,… — Kay Hooper
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually — Malcolm X
From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses. — Basil Hume
'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...… — Socrates
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we… — Douglas Hofstadter
'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole… — Rajneesh
To love someone is to always see them as the miracle that they are; as the miracle that they exist, the miracle that makes your… — Philip K. Jason
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the… — Kenny Smith
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves. — Madeleine L'Engle
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my… — Charles Horton Cooley
But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole… — J. B. Priestley

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