Quotes of: Selves Keyword

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

Mary Pipher

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

Carre Otis

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

Ali ibn Abi Talib

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

Dominique Dawes

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

Zane Grey

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

William James

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

Songs of Enlightenment

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

Smokey Robinson

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

Karen Horney

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

Sue Monk Kidd

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

George Herbert Mead

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

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

A. R. Ammons

Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that Mom ever was - The one you wanted, the one she was when you needed her and she was there, the one she was when she didn’t understand. Most of us do...

A Dirty Job

Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

Contact

This bed yawns beneath the weight of our absent selves.

The Complete Collected Poems

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

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

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

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

Riz Ahmed