Sentence examples for our old selves from inspiring English sources

"We are back to our old selves.

"With Brianna in there, we looked like our old selves".

No wonder we don't always feel like our old selves.

Now, some of us are even closer to being our old selves.

None of us much like dwelling on the slow erosion of our bodies in this environment — the bone-density decay, the pale, starved skeletons we've substituted for our old selves.

Music haunts us with the ghosts of our old selves, who we were when we first heard songs, as well as all the ghosts of who we might have been.

If we contest in the arena of virtues, we will not revert back to our old self but begin our life anew, closer to Christ.

The challenge: Do we really think of our older selves as strangers?

New year resolutions are often attempts at reclaiming our older selves, shoring up the best memories of who we used to be.

"Owning" the ageing process instead of fighting it makes it easier to value our older selves, and reclaim – both individually and together – a sense of the lifecycle.

It's true, of course, that most of us gain wisdom and experience as we age, but a new study has found that few people actually acknowledge the process will continue in the future and that our older selves are likely to look back on our fiftysomething days as a time of relative ignorance.