selves

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Likewise, consider investing your own hard-earned money where people invest in their selves, in becoming who they want to become, in flourishing as human beings.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

In the 40 second video from the World Without Exploitation group, released in the US on Super Bowl Sunday, survivors held up photographs of their younger selves and said "we all deserve the truth".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Not quite as good, but still warmhearted: an ad in which athletes Puka Nacua, Oksana Masters and Bubba Wallace meet their younger selves, remembering how they got inspired in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026

Only a few land on the side of the parent keeping what they loved about their essential selves intact, cautioning against placing the burden of what could have been on the shoulders of their offspring.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026

If you had been looking for a very long, geologic time, you could have seen the continents them- selves in motion, drifting apart on their crustal plates, held afloat by the fire beneath.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas