Certain Quote by John Dewey

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

— Caitlin Flanagan

...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things…

— Mark Strand

I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.

— Sara Teasdale

Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in that vast…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly…

— Susan Cain

Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Living true to your ideal self may seem impossible but if you work hard on it, you can see it is achievable.

— Anonymous

“We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in…

— Susan Cain

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between…

— Susan Cain

“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is." from…

— Robert Brandom

“Take that your accidental self and build it into your ideal self.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“One of the most important things you could actually do in life is to create the best of yourself, to create your ideal self.”

— Sunday Adelaja