Selves Quotes

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

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 lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

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 to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.