“We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.”
Mark Twain
“Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.”
Carol Lynn Pearson
“I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“I try to give people the ability to articulate their being. We must stop and think about our ethical selves and understand what gives us joy, meaning and a sense that we have served others.”
Cliff Hakim
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the other person”
“What we really need to do is get in tune with our inner selves. We've gotten way out of whack with our hunger cues. Is it hunger, is it thirst, am I eating because I'm upset or depressed, am I eating because it's there?”
Lori Jones
“We just need to get everybody together and playing in rhythm, and we'll look like our old selves.”
Tony Richardson