Selves Quotes – City of Quotes

Sue Monk Kidd

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By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: ‘I like that’ becomes ‘I’m like that.’

Virginia Postrel

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In the end, ‘Star Wars’ insists that you can’t be redeemed without attachment. That’s the strongest message of the saga, and that’s what makes it speak to people’s deepest selves.

Cass Sunstein

In the end, ‘Star Wars’ insists that you can’t be redeemed without attachment. That’s the strongest message of the saga, and that’s what makes it speak to people’s deepest selves.

Cass Sunstein

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After being a mom, we are now in a different chapter in our womanhood, and instead of trying to be our old selves or get our old body back, we should embrace who we are now.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

After being a mom, we are now in a different chapter in our womanhood, and instead of trying to be our old selves or get our old body back, we should embrace who we are now.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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Sometimes we can’t see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it’s so easy to see somebody else’s.

Debbie Ford

Sometimes we can’t see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it’s so easy to see somebody else’s.

Debbie Ford

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We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Charlie Pierce

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Charlie Pierce

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For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

Charles Duhigg

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

Charles Duhigg

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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama’s hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

Yayoi Kusama

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama’s hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

Yayoi Kusama

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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Natasha Trethewey

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Natasha Trethewey

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

Elizabeth Berkley

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

Elizabeth Berkley

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

Nina Hagen

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

Nina Hagen

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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.

William Wordsworth

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.

William Wordsworth

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The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

Ali Smith

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

Ali Smith

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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

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

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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

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

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When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely… save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

Guy Finley

When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely… save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

Guy Finley

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I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

Suki Waterhouse

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

Suki Waterhouse

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By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.

Cass Sunstein

By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.

Cass Sunstein

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I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don’t tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

Don Rickles

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don’t tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

Don Rickles

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Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Siri Hustvedt

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Siri Hustvedt

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#selves 29

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: ‘I like that’ becomes ‘I’m like that.’

In the end, ‘Star Wars’ insists that you can’t be redeemed without attachment. That’s the strongest message of the saga, and that’s what makes it speak to people’s deepest selves.

After being a mom, we are now in a different chapter in our womanhood, and instead of trying to be our old selves or get our old body back, we should embrace who we are now.

Sometimes we can’t see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it’s so easy to see somebody else’s.

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama’s hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

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

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

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

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

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.

When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely… save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don’t tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?