Sentence examples for self living from inspiring English sources

Old values and traditions seemed open to re-evaluation, and many of us dreamed of becoming a different kind of self, living inside a different kind of world.

By the end of the film, he is a frightened, ravaged shell of his former self, living in a squalid shack with a harridan.

The Shadow, a concept repurposed from Jung, is a self living inside us that is "everything we don't want to be but fear we are," whom we must visualize and corporealize.

Arriving at the isolated, menacing house on the moors, Mary discovers her aunt to be a pale and battered shadow of her former self, living in terror of her seven-foot, wolf-like husband, and his violent rages and drinking binges.

As may be surmised then, by relying on the above-mentioned methodological stance, Zen Buddhism has produced an understanding of reality one's own self, living nature and human nature quite different from those offered by Western philosophy.

There was little variation among the mean scores for the Friendships, School, Self, Living Environment, and Physical Appearance domains with most falling within "mostly satisfied".

Sometimes, I wonder whether my hypothetical, alternative self lives somewhere in a parallel universe.

She also shared some solid (and painfully simple) wisdom for her 25-year-old self: "Live in the moment".

"Our self lives in our face and anything that alters our face, namely our hair, is going to drastically alter how we perceive ourselves".

Not incidentally, it was in a story collection — his fifth, "Bech: A Book" (1970) — that Mr. Updike created in the character Henry Bech a counter-self living a counter-life.

Not incidentally, it was in a story collection -- his fifth, "Bech: A Book" (1970) -- that Mr. Updike created in the character Henry Bech a counter-self living a counter-life.