Quotes About Selves

#1. Do we know ourselves - our "self"? How are we supposed to be ourselves if we are not our selves? And how can we be our selves without knowing who we are, such that we are certain of being the ones we are?

Martin Heidegger

#2. Throughout our lives, God's grace bestows temporal blessings and spiritual gifts that magnify our abilities and enrich our lives. His grace refines us. His grace helps us become our best selves.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#3. The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we're not in form to learn lessons. We're here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.

S. Kelley Harrell

#5. How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

Antonio Damasio

#6. It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Gordon Neufeld

#7. Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

Indra Nooyi

#8. Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

Jane McGonigal

#9. I myself was nothing more than a collection of marginal selves who sit out their time like unpaid stevedores on an unfinished pier where no boats ever dock.

Andre Aciman

#10. Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

Robin Sharma

#11. Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we our selves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?

Geraldine Brooks

#12. The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves." John

Napoleon Hill

#13. We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means.

Rhea Perlman

#14. My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

Martha Beck

#15. It's about being ourselves, our real best selves, the women God made us to be. It's about reading the writing on our feminine souls - writing engraved there from the moment God formed us in our mothers' wombs - then living what that writing proclaims.

Emily Stimpson

#16. It is the main motivation of humankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction - to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

Brendon Burchard

#17. 05 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

Anonymous

#18. 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.

Lionel Trilling

#19. But surely the idea that one might slip away unseen and take up another life is nearly universal. Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#20. If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.

Ellen Willis

#21. We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

Salman Rushdie

#22. 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

#23. We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

William Boyd

#24. Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.

Seth

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

Stephen King

#26. Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.

Martin Donovan

#27. Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

Ilchi Lee

#28. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

Sebastian Faulks

#29. Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves.

Will Schwalbe

#30. Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#31. Start the good job today by your self and let the generation end it tomorrow by them selves.

Issah Awal

#32. There lies the demon in us: we fear to confront our very own selves.

Abhijit Haldar

#33. Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

Daniel Mackler

#34. Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.

George Miller

#35. You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

Frederick Lenz

#36. The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.

Julian Baggini

#37. It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

Libba Bray

#38. Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#39. That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.

Connor Franta

#40. We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.

Terence McKenna

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

Todd Rundgren

#42. Memories are not the truth of the past. We sculpt them to suit our images of our present selves. And, in any case, the truth of then is not the truth of now.

Ian C. Esslemont

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

Orson Scott Card

#44. 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.

Bryant H. McGill

#45. Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want

M.J. Ryan

#46. The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.

Robert Lanza

#47. We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Glen Duncan

#48. We can create a labyrinth of faulty analysis and decision making as we try to connect the outside world to our inside selves.

Elaina Marie

#49. My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.

Mary Gaitskill

#50. If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others

Sunday Adelaja

#51. 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.

James MacGregor Burns

#52. By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Robyn Davidson

#53. I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.

Sarah Jones

#54. By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,

Ann Druyan

#55. Limitations are possibilities ...
Opportunities to perceive ourselves
Beyond our present selves ...

Ilchi Lee

#56. 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

#57. All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

Brenda Shoshanna

#58. We're in a transient state - why hate our present selves? Let's save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, or beyond, changing. Then we can hate, if hate we must.

Ruth Reichl

#59. There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing

Karen Horney

#60. Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.

Zora Neale Hurston

#61. I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Roger Zelazny

#62. We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#63. When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.

Francis Quarles

#64. A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Caroline Leavitt

#65. Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?

John Hawkes

#66. NW is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia
for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore
is less a salve than a form of pain.

Christian Lorentzen

#67. People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.

George MacDonald

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

Jeanette Winterson

#69. In fact ants, to cite just one example, work unselfishly for the community; we humans sometimes do not look good by comparison. We are supposed to be higher beings, so we must act according to our higher selves.

Dalai Lama XIV

#70. It is as if we have been wandering in a foreign land looking for peace and purpose in our lives and a true sense of who we are. Jesus stands in our midst and beckons us home so that we can be restored to our true selves.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#71. To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

Thomas Merton

#72. I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

Michael Hyatt

#73. To stir the masses, to appeal to their higher, better selves, to set them thinking for themselves, and to hold ever before them the ideal of mutual kindness and good will, based upon mutual interests, is to render real service to the cause of humanity.

Eugene V. Debs

#74. We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

George Eliot

#75. I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me?

Wilkie Collins

#76. We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

Sylvia Plath

#77. In our privatest mind," he said, "there is only chaos and blur. We invented logic to beat back our creatural selves. We assert or deny. We follow M with N.

Anonymous

#78. They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

Neal Shusterman

#79. The best gift we can give other people is our whole selves in truth. By doing so we give them a true and accurate mirror that allows them to see themselves. We also give ourselves the best opportunity to grow.

A.C. Ping

#80. 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

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

Nina Hagen

#82. The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can't reach, the parts that connect the child to the adult and the brain to the heart and reality to dreams. Stories, at their essence, are enemies of snobbery. And a book snob is the enemy of the book.

Matt Haig

#83. Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.

Dennis Lehane

#84. With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.

Diane Wolkstein

#85. " ... All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#86. Through reflection, awakening, and choice we are able to exist as our true selves. However, this is not the end. In order for us to realize and put into practice the life purpose we have chosen, endless choices await us.

Ilchi Lee

#87. It remains, for me, the most powerful and elegant explanation of how we humans and our brains construct our very individual selves and worlds.

Oliver Sacks

#88. Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves.

Jerome K. Jerome

#89. 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 selves.

Harold Bloom

#90. The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.

Cory Booker

#91. When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

Hilaire Belloc

#92. One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems ... wars, nations, destructions ... to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

Richard Bach

#93. Our parents don't know us ... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

Ellen Sussman

#94. A further, albeit more complex, possibility is that our conscious selves might suffer from characteristic uncertainty about our true values, and gather information about them from choices we make (the Jamesian: "How do I know what I like until I see what I pick").

Tali Sharot

#95. We're all just memories of our future selves.

Reggie Watts

#96. When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

Alanis Morissette

#97. I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

Jeanette Winterson

#98. Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

Alan W. Watts

#99. 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 sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

Audre Lorde

#100. It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.

John Climacus