Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.
I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.
There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.
Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.
We have to discard the past and, as one builds floor by floor, window by window, and the building rises, so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, then proud doors. . . and each new day gleams like an empty plate.
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires.
I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!
Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything. . . the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.
Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.