Selves Quotes
496 quotes by 382 authors
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Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls…
— Mary Pipher
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After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe…
— Lawrence Millman
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Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
— Yasmin Mogahed
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My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular…
— Audre Lorde
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We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's…
— Marina Keegan
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Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct…
— Harold Bloom
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I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds…
— Tilda Swinton
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The self cannot be self without other selves.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.
— Shoghi Effendi
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At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the…
— Galen Rowell
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And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the life…
— Sydney Banks
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Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.
— Indra Nooyi
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
— Anne Lamott
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In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
— Krishna Das
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Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.
— Julian Jaynes
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
— Dalai Lama
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Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by…
— Bessel van der Kolk
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I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when…
— Barack Obama
Who Wrote These Selves Quotes
382 authors contributed a total of 496 Selves Quotes, led by these top contributors: