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Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business. — Penelope Lively

We try on different dresses, different selves, but our souls are always the same - ongoing, full of light. — Francesca Lia Block

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true. — Marianne Williamson

The comparison isn't with others; it's with your former and future selves. — Scott Barry Kaufman

I am inspiring and activating others to wake up to their unique selves to anchor the next stage of our unfoldment. — Michael Beckwith

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

The self cannot be self without other selves. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves. — Deborah Harkness

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. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves. — Pamela Cummins

People so easily forget their past selves. — Henrik Ibsen

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

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves. — Deb Caletti

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is. — Brene Brown

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

Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own selves. — Sheikh Abdullah

Generally, the longer it takes for us to make a decision, the greater the disconnect between our current experience of life and our true selves. — Elaina Marie

We discover our true selves in love. — Thomas Merton

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us. — Aimee Bender

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

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live — Christina Baker Kline

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Lynn Pearson

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment. — Donald T. Phillips

The core of my personality consists of many selves. — Hans Bender

To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego. — Peter Santos

We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. — Cassandra Clare

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves. — Bill Viola

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. — Neal Shusterman

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you — Yasmin Mogahed

Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get. — Rob Lowe

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves. — Princess Superstar

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves — George Eliot

Someone has done something for us. Something that we can never forget. Something that we can't do again even for our own selves. — M.H. Rakib

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

(As Harvard's Daniel Gilbert puts it, our future selves often "pay good money to remove the tattoos that we paid good money to get.") — Brian Christian

Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light. — Solange Nicole

Every challenge makes us to humble our selves. We learn to know and depend on our Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There were innumerable selves that he evoked in her. — Jerzy Kosinski

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. — Christina Baldwin

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.' — Virginia Postrel

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are. — Brene Brown

Every writer needs two selves - the generative self and the editor self. — Mary Karr

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

Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves. — Nova Ren Suma

At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves — Kapil Kumar Bhaskar

Start the good job today by your self and let the generation end it tomorrow by them selves. — Issah Awal

I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people. — Lynn Shelton

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

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

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves. — Lisa Mangum

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

Whether you wish to chant 'Our houses, our selves' or 'We have houses, hear us roar,' for us women, home is where the heart is. — Sandra Tsing Loh

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

When we share what we were brought here to give, we are in alignment with our highest, most powerful selves. — Jen Sincero

Losing through you
what seemed myself, i find
selves unimaginably mine. — E. E. Cummings

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein — Stieg Larsson

Why should we always try to be true to our natural selves? What if our natural selves are assholes? Stalin was true to himself — A. J. Jacobs

I love all of myself in all ways for all time. I am made of pure love, and it permeates all of my selves. — Amy Leigh Mercree

When we take our focus off of our external selves, and others, God does His best work internally! JW — Evinda Lepins

We are two people who are madly in love with our old selves. And that is not the same as being in love. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves. — Sylvia Plath

There lies the demon in us: we fear to confront our very own selves. — Abhijit Haldar

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had. — Helen Bevington

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance. — Orson Scott Card

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. — T. S. Eliot

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves. — Salman Rushdie

Ironically, the more obsessed we are with our selves, the more we neglect our souls. — John Ortberg

We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves. — Andrea Barrett

People will always show their true selves in the end. — Leona Lewis

As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves — Steve Martin

Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions. — Frederick Lenz

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell. — Thomas Merton

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh. — Natalie Goldberg

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

Limitations are possibilities ...
Opportunities to perceive ourselves
Beyond our present selves ... — Ilchi Lee

When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves. For you have lost the heart of England. — Hilaire Belloc

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. — Christopher Moore

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves. — Salman Rushdie

We intend to hide our shortcomings, and the fear inside our hearts, but instead, we hide our beauty, our true selves. — Jo Ann Fore

Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world. — William Alexander

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

Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet, ...
The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak
Our selves unseen, unseeing! — Edmond Rostand

But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden. — Tad Williams

SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME WE WILL NEVER FEEL loved until we drop the act, until we're willing to show our true selves to the people around us. — Donald Miller

Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others. — Rupert Spira

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly

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

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

The world is a marketplace. We all are in business and what we are
selling is our unique selves. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive. — Gordon Livingston

Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is? — Mary Louisa Molesworth

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The Internet is the quarry from which younger generations craft their own selves and then advertise a desired persona on Facebook. — Michael S. Horton

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

For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not as simple as our friends would have us to meet our needs. Yet love is simple. — Virginia Woolf

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense. — Cornel West