Many Selves Quotes

#1. I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!

Charles Simic

#2. We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies.

A. Lee Martinez

#3. How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

Susan Hill

#4. We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.

S.R. Hardy

#6. I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Jerzy Kosinski

#7. I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for ...

Lauren Oliver

#8. As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.

Frederick Lenz

#9. If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.

Frederick Lenz

#10. There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

James Dickey

#11. As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The core of my personality consists of many selves.

Hans Bender

#13. I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

Eric Maisel

#14. Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".

Napoleon Hill

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

Jeanette Winterson

#16. 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.

Dirk Benedict

#17. Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

Orson Scott Card

#18. How many unsuspected selves could a person have, hidden deep inside? She was beginning to think the number might be infinite.

Stephen King

#19. The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame.

John Bradshaw

#20. Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Vernon Howard

#21. Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#22. Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

Fernando Pessoa

#23. For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves - the greatest test of all.

Frank McCourt

#24. Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.

Pascal Mercier

#25. Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.

Grace Gealey

#26. You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it's about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what's real.

Libba Bray

#27. Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How - how? - can I make it always so?

Christine Montross

#28. I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#29. Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don't think it's okay to be weak ... We have been injured in many ways and our real self houses all of the evidence of those injuries. The pain, the brokenness and the emotional underdevelopment we all possess is part of who we really are.

Henry Cloud

#30. Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

Nicola Griffith

#31. He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself couldn't tell which one of his selves was the authentic, if any.

Kiran Desai

#32. There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium. (One among a thousand others, continually possible and always at the ready.) An average of "me's," a movement in the crowd. In the name of many, I sign this book.

Henri Michaux

#33. Maybe you could write to a future version of yourself. Many people write their journals to future selves, I think. It demonstrates a kind of hopefulness.

Cynthia Hand

#34. A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

Virginia Woolf

#35. All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.

Rachel Holmes

#36. Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#37. Being is always becoming; people change and stay the same. What is true for bodies is also true for selves: even the most honest person has many faces, none of which are false.

Dexter Palmer

#38. For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Rob Bell

#39. Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.

Swami Vivekananda

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

William James

#41. Spiritual formation is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It's about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in its many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves.

Henri J.M. Nouwen