Top Selves Quotes
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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
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
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
T. S. Eliot 
Zane Grey 
Smokey Robinson 
A. R. Ammons 
George H. Mead 
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 
Brigitte Bardot 
Nick Cave 
Gore Vidal 
Jeanette Winterson All Selves Quotes
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen 
78% of people like this quote
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
64% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
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% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
55% of people like this quote
It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
John Doerr
55% of people like this quote
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton
55% of people like this quote
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