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A lot of time, mothers put their kids first, their selves aside, and then there's some moms who are like, 'Look, I'm going to try and balance it all out and still have my personal life.'
LeToya Luckett
Life
Time
Balance
Try
First
Personal Life
Kids
Out
All-Out
Some
Put
Like
Look
Mothers
Still
Lot
Selves
Personal
Going
Aside
Then
Who
Moms
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.
Lewis Thomas
Time
Nature
Property
Nothing
Living
Think
Our
About
Only
Tend
Selves
Same
Same Time
Commonplace
Really
Creations
Unique
Uniqueness
Wholly
Things
Universal
Phenomenon
All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.
Lynn Margulis
Animals
Own
Our
Furry
Corpse
Exactly
Sexuality
Embryo
Directly
Indirectly
Exciting
Forefathers
Fertile
Provocative
Selves
Wet
Egg
Either
Warm
Us
Compelled
I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.
Lynn Shelton
Time
Relationship
Change
People
Our
Self
Over
How
Shift
Selves
Different
Really
Different People
Fascinated
I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
You
Single
Think
Way
Seemingly
Facets
Varied
Because
Single Person
Selves
Contradictory
Person
Many
Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
Megan Smith
History
You
Heart
Inclusive
Everything
Ways
Take
Open
Takes
Know
Make
Selves
Infinite
Your
Whole
I hope movies like 'Love, Simon' encourage people to be their authentic selves.
Natasha Rothwell
Love
Hope
People
Simon
Like
Encourage
Selves
Authentic
Movies
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
Best
Me
Gift
Admirable
Seems
Poems
Writers
Genuine
His
Selves
Person
Often
Then
Page
Who
Now
Deeply
Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.
Nina Hagen
Service
People
Picture
Consider
Our
Some
Selfless
Selves
Just
Little
Who
Whole
Need
There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you want. That remains an ideal in terms of how you dress too - when you go shopping, you try on all possible selves and then decide.
Pamela Druckerman
You
Shopping
Try
Whatever
Too
Possible
Dress
Remains
Idea
Ideal
Terms
How
Go
Selves
America
Want
Decide
Then
I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?
Patrisse Cullors
Work
Fight
Own
Think
Everybody
Our
Visibility
Visible
About
Rather
Individual
Leaders
Make
How
Selves
Just
Movement
Whole
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.
Paul Auster
Change
Become
Young
Older
Our
More
Bottom
Sophisticated
Continue
Selves
Listen
Story
Next
Resemble
Grow
Eager
While all doctors treat diseases, neurosurgeons' work is the crucible of identity. Every operation on the brain is, by necessity, a manipulation of the substance of our selves.
Paul Kalanithi
Work
Treat
Doctors
Every
Our
Crucible
Identity
Operation
Brain
Selves
Diseases
Substance
While
Manipulation
Necessity
Dove is encouraging people to set their own standards worldwide. To be their own unique selves. To not allow others to shame them for accepting their own bodies and styles.
Rain Dove
People
Own
Others
Worldwide
Shame
Allow
Accepting
Styles
Encouraging
Selves
Them
Bodies
Dove
Standards
Unique
Set
I hope, by never hiding, I can show there is never anything to be ashamed of when we are being our true selves.
Rain Dove
Hope
Our
Hiding
Never
True
Selves
Being
Anything
Ashamed
Show
I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know.
Rebecca Stead
You
People
Young
Think
Else
Our
Out
Must
About
No-One
Feel
Know
Selves
Who
Ever
Lives
Things
Early
What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.
Rita Moreno
Work
Important
Young
Think
Musical
Physical
Performers
Knowing
Well
Terribly
Lot
Selves
Straight
Them
Body
Your
Flexibility
Your Body
Actor
Awkward
Bring
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
Rob Bell
God
People
Word
Thinking
Destructive
Kind
Bad
Give
Something
True
Supposed
Because
Up
Selves
Deny
Hearts
Really
Teaches
Many
Desire
By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.
Robyn Davidson
Best
Walk
Free
Back
Our
Ourselves
Physical
Both
Road
Taking
Baggage
Condition
Selves
Psychological
Original
I have learned that the hardest part of campaigning for tolerance and justice is encouraging people to look at their own selves, to examine their own identity and shortcomings.
Roger Ross Williams
Justice
People
Own
Tolerance
Examine
Part
Look
Identity
Learned
Encouraging
Campaigning
Selves
Shortcomings
Hardest
Hardest Part
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Rowan Williams
Life
Our
Find
Shall
Protected
Go
Selves
Precious
Refusing
Let Go
I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.
Ryan Gosling
Become
Think
Bound
Always
Selves
Two
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
Sadie Jones
Time
Waiting
Feelings
Think
Our
Immediate
Those
About
Perhaps
Read
How
Surprise
Selves
Than
Closer
Often
Childhood
Just
Moving
Us
Much
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
Home
You
Heart
Women
Wish
Chant
Our
Roar
Houses
Hear
Selves
Where
Whether
Us
Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Girl
Parents
Teen
Outfits
Adolescent
Various
Takes
Feel
Schools
Educated
Selves
Trying
Children
Different
Search
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
Smokey Robinson
Spiritual
Sometimes
Our
Worry
Physical
About
More
Look
How
Very
Selves
Than
Creatures
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