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“Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“ It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.”
― Jon Katz

“Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading 2

“Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.”
― Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice

“I myself was nothing more than a collection of marginal selves who sit out their time like unpaid stevedores on an unfinished pier where no boats ever dock.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“...discovering you are not identical with yourself even in the most disturbing and painful way still contains the glimmer, however refracted, of the world to come, where everything is the same but a little different because the past will be citable in all of its moments, including those that from our present present happened but never occurred.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04

“And it occurred to me, standing there in that bleak, cavernous space, that nobody is ever just one thing: villain or hero, dirtbag or prince. If the multiverse was about choices, and all possible choices were being made, then we might be all those things and everything in between.”
― A.W. Hill, The Switch

“We guarantee rude emptiness for ourselves; later in life, when we treat children as - "empty buckets", today.”
― Aniruddha Sastikar

“It is in community where we find our very selves.”
― Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

“You can be but cannot become yourself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“God declared that the end of ourselves need not be the end of ourselves. And if we don’t somehow find that exhilarating, we will end ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When we don’t appreciate others, we gradually fail to see the positive side of other people.
When others don’t appreciate us, we fail to see the positive side of our own selves.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“There is no way you can go back in time and protect your earlier selves”
― Srividya Srinivasan

“We have the mind and the consciousness of the universe. Due to our ignorance, we see the world and our own selves divided and separated into two units. A truly wise person sees the entire world in the self and the self in the world.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“If we can suffer boredom with peace and conquer it with patience, we can discover our creative selves.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“For, if we’re really going to give ourselves the best of ourselves, we have to be honest with the worst of ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“What do we know of the man
who passes us in the street?
Do we notice his multitudes
� the million masterpieces of his mind?
There aren’t enough years to really know someone.
He has already changed in the passing.
Come, it is getting late.
Let me share my infinite selves.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,

Is ourselves. And that’s all we need
To start. That’s everything we require to keep going.

Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”
― Alberto Ríos, Not Go Away Is My Name