I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

- Laura Marling

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

- William James

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

- Virginia Postrel

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

- Terry McMillan

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

- Smokey Robinson

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

- Siri Hustvedt

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

- Spike Jonze

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

- Riz Ahmed

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

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

- Brigitte Bardot

People will always show their true selves in the end.

- Leona Lewis

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

- Karen Horney

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

- Jeanette Winterson

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

- Hans Bender

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

- Gordon Neufeld

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

- George Herbert Mead

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

- Debbie Ford