Quotes with selves

Quotes 21 till 24 of 24.

• We must make the choises that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

  Thomas Merton
  American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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• 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
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

  John Updike
  American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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• When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• materialism
• influential
• conscience
• intention
• sensation
• spiritual

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