Selfhood Quotes: top 40 famous quotes about Selfhood

Selfhood Quotes & Sayings

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Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. — Reif Larsen

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. — Cecil Day-Lewis

When you say something stupid, gloss over it with superfast talking and maybe no one'll notice. — Cynthia Lord

[Grief] is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms. — Max Porter

One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings. — Eugene Delacroix

The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false. — Frederick Lenz

What I really do is make portraits of the soul. — Jan Saudek

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall. — Benazir Bhutto

Claiming our voice, and our selfhood, is a sacred act. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul. — Aldous Huxley

There is no better time to examine and understand one's selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness. — Robert Jackson Bennett

The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time. — Aldous Huxley

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism. — Frederick Lenz

His vanity required constant stimulation, and constant proof that the ongoing creation of his selfhood was a project that he himself controlled. — Eleanor Catton

Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you. — Ray A. Davis

If you can love all who've betrayed you ... you can taste sweetness in everything. — Holly Lynn Payne

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight! — Dorothy Parker

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal. — William Zinsser

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart. — Sebastian Faulks

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear. — Samuel Johnson

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. — Jonathan Dee

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss. — Gautama Buddha

...Life happens so hard and fast I sometimes wonder who is me... — Sylvia Plath

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life. — Emmet Fox

In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood. — Tony Campolo

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. — Octavio Paz

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities. — Orison Swett Marden

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody. — Frederick Lenz

The work is to somehow talk ourselves beyond / the sleepiness of selfhood — W.S. Di Piero

Greatest quality of money is whether coming or going leave tears in the eyes of beholder. — Kishore Bansal

It's not rocket surgery! — David Lee Roth

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return. — Mason Cooley

Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood, — Carl F. H. Henry

The struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do — John Geddes

By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there. — Wilferd Peterson

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly. — Gordon Willis

-To Javed-
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity. — Muhammad Iqbal

It's his mother's birthday? But he didn't tell me. I don't have a card. I don't have a gift. How could he do this to me?
Men are crap. — Sophie Kinsella