Selves Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The core of my personality consists of many 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.

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

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.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true 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.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

Our ideals are our better selves.

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.

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

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

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.