Sentence examples for idea of myself from inspiring English sources

Recalling her junior year at Bryn Mawr, Ms. Truitt wrote, "I was obsessed with the idea of MYSELF as a citadel, an inner stronghold for which the experience of my life would on the one hand provide nourishment and other the other build more and more intactly".

"My idea of myself got bigger.

I had a certain idea of myself as I approached: portrait of the writer going home.

Maybe that's why I had forgotten them; they didn't fit my idea of myself.

I have never cheated on a boyfriend, and, as with my father, it's become part of my idea of myself.

Still, he relents, "I suppose the idea of myself as clean-living was something that scared me.

Here out of sight I wait to meet myself with no idea of what myself might be.

I was stirred by the idea of studying myself, determined to treat myself as if I were a cancer experiment of one.

with no idea of what myself might be.

But I did like the idea of tricking myself.

"At first I was against the idea of damaging myself.