Quotes about personality

A collection of quotes on the topic of personality, person, personal, can.

Best quotes about personality

„Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

Variant: Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are

„You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.“

— Warren Buffett American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2013/12/02/23-quotes-from-warren-buffett-on-life-and-generosity/ "23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity" forbes.com (02 December 2013)
Quotes from the press

„The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

„If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

As quoted in Monk Magazine (1992-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

„I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?“

— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936

„You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.“

— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012

„A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.“

— Jean De La Fontaine French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621 - 1695

Source: Fables

„The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.“

— Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 1788 - 1860

Source: Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays

„You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.“

— Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015

„No person has the right to rain on your dreams.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

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„I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Love

„The objective of education reform is to creat learning individual, organization, and society. An educated person or the authentic learning outcome should possess the following abilities and characteristics which are based on Thai cultural heritage and appropriate level of education: good physical and mental health, critical thinking, intellectual inquisitiveness, professionalism, sense of responsibility, honesty, selfsacrifice, perseverance, team spirit, adherence to democracy, and love for King, Country and Religion.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Reason and the objective of Education Reform

Love, Health, Education, Religion

„Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.“

— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

Love, Life, People, Pleasure

„I strongly believe that, as a citizen of the world, any person has the right to learn“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

World, Learning

„In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.“

— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

Life, Smile

„I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing… forgiveness.“

— Louis Zamperini Italian-American middle distance runner 1917 - 2014

Variant: I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's healing, actually, it's real healing...
Forgiveness.

Life, Hate, Forgiveness, Thinking

„I really am… shinobi trash. But the one thing I still learned is this. That void is something that everyone helps you fill. Just because you face adversity and hardships, is no reason to give up on this world. A person willing to throw away all those memories… of their friends and comrades, will never find peace of mind. Resorting to something like that isn't going to bury that hole. If you persevere and endure, someone will be there to support you!“

— Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto

World, Peace, Support, Learning

„Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

Dreams

„I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? “

— Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987

World, Football

„Every person who is tempted to go astray, does not deserve punishment.“

— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

„What I do when I write is that I'll do a raggedy, rough version just to hear the chorus, just to see how much I like the chorus. If it works for me that way when it's raggedy, then I'll know it will just work… Listen to that, that's at home. Janet, Randy, Me… Janet and I are going "Whoo, Whoo… Whoo, Whoo…" I do that same process with every song. It's the melody, it's the melody that's most important, If the melody can sell me, then I'll go to the next step. The idea is to transcribe from what's in your mentality onto tape. If you take a song like "Billie Jean," Where the bass line is the prominent, dominant piece, the protagonist of the song, the main driving riff that you hear, getting the character of the riff to be just the way you want it to be, that takes a lot of time. Listen, you're hearing four basses on there, doing four different personalities, and that's what gives it character, but it takes a lot of work.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

On listening to an early version of Billie Jean on an iPhone
Ebony interview (2007)

Way, Home, Idea, Time

„When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.“

— Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879 - 1953

It is mistakenly attributed to Stalin: there is no evidence that he ever said or wrote something like that.

This phrase from the novel "Children of the Arbat" (1987) by Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков (1911 — 1998). As Stalin said about the execution of military experts in Tsaritsyn in 1918: "Death solves all problems. No person and no problem. " Later, in his «Роман-воспоминание» (1997), Рыбаков wrote that the phrase Stalin "possibly from someone heard, perhaps, he came up with." This was Stalin's principle. I just, it briefly formulated."

Problem

„I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

God, Idea, Drink

„I'd make Liam my slave and I would make him be my (uh) personal trainer!“

— Zayn Malik British singer 1993

„To exist is not a choice, but a gift. Living to your full potential is a personal choice you must make after finding your true Self.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

„I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.“

— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958

People, Understanding, Problem

„To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.“

— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

Education

„The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.“

— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987

Education, Learning, Change

„A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one. “

— Ville Valo Finnish rock musician 1976

Sex

„Actions can easily reveal the truth about the person, but also remember not to ignore the words.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Truth

„It's all true that education will make you intelligent. But it can't automatically make you a good person too.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Intelligence, Education

„I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.“

— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958

People, Happiness

„Scientist believe in things, not in person“

— Marie Curie French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867 - 1934

„When you feel the last bit of breath leaving their body, you're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!“

— Ted Bundy, book The Stranger Beside Me

Quoted by Bill Hagmaier. Rule, Ann (2009). The Stranger Beside Me (Paperback; updated 2009 ed.). New York: Pocket Books pages 380–96.

God, Feeling

„Now, O son of God, set in the valley of true humility, walk in peace without pride of spirit, which, like a precipitous mountain, offers a difficult, or near-impossible, ascent or descent to those who attempt to scale it, and on its summit no building can be built. For a person who tries to climb higher than he can achieve possesses the name of sanctity without substance, because, in name alone without a structure of good works, he glories in a kind of vain joy of the mind.“

— Hildegard of Bingen Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church 1098 - 1179

Letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176

God, Peace, Mountain, Joy

„Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small. Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.“

— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

Source: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/billie-eilish-new-ep/

Making love, Smile, Feeling

„What is most personal is most universal.“

— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Universe

„When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.“

— Patañjali ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises -200 - -150 BC

As quoted by Wayne Dyer http://n-spire.com/archives/011802.html
The Mahābhāṣya

World, Dreams

„Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.“

— B.K.S. Iyengar Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918 - 2014

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61

Way, Change

„I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.“

— Harriet Tubman African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820 - 1913

„I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own.“

— Kurt Cobain, book Journals

Source: Journals (2002), p. 95

„I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.“

— Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005

People

„There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.“

— Leonard Ravenhill British writer 1907 - 1994

Source: Why Revival Tarries

God, People, Thinking

„I was trying to figure out what I’m doing, and that was the first time I was constantly being kicked down for doing that. When I didn’t know, I just wanted to say, ‘This is what I want, this is where I am in my professional life, things changed in my personal life, things changed in my heart — everything.’ And people just thought, ‘Alright, this is what we think.’ And yeah, I made some decisions that weren’t great as well, and so did he and that’s why we went through all that to only make us better. And he has heard [the song] and he has seen the video, and it’s something that I feel like girls need hear, and it’s something I’m willing to share with people.“

— Selena Gomez American singer and actress 1992

Life, People, Feeling, Girl

„My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.“

— Osamu Dazai, book No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human

Fear, Heart

„The killing was a means to an end. That was the least satisfactory part. I didn't enjoy doing that. That's why I tried to create living zombies with uric acid in the drill [to the head], but it never worked. No, the killing was not the objective. I just wanted to have the person under my complete control, not having to consider their wishes, being able to keep them there as long as I wanted.“

— Jeffrey Dahmer American serial killer, cannibal and necrophile 1960 - 1994

In an interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC (29 November 1994)

Parting

„Optics is an example of the different ways a human is able to see things in the world. The same goes for the color of a person's skin and even though optics present that there are differences in color, these do not state that they should necessarily be treated as different.“

— Edward Bouchet African American academic 1852 - 1918

Unsourced

World, Color, Way

„Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.“

— Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964

Life, Time, Making love

„When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.“

— Ram Dass American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now 1931 - 2019

Flowers

„He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.“

— Osamu Dazai, book No Longer Human

Third Notebook: Part Two
Source: No Longer Human

Suicide, Dead

„To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.“

— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

World, Beauty, Happy, Friendship

„I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.“

— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958

„Worldview" is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed much more brightly, than in some other "intellectual" or scientist.“

— Julius Evola Italian philosopher and esotericist 1898 - 1974

Books, Education, Time

„Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.“

— Bill Gates American business magnate and philanthropist 1955

Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard".
A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days he will have an easy way to do it".
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/

Way, For Team, Funny, Back To Work

„The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.“

— John Rawls, book A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter II, Section 14, pg. 87-88
Context: Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
Context: We may reject the contention that the ordering of institutions is always defective because the distribution of natural talents and the contingencies of social circumstance are unjust, and this injustice must inevitably carry over to human arrangements. Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. Aristocratic and caste societies are unjust because they make these contingencies the ascriptive basis for belonging to more or less enclosed and privileged social classes. The basic structure of these societies incorporates the arbitrariness found in nature. But there is no necessity for men to resign themselves to these contingencies. The social system is not an unchangeable order beyond human control but a pattern of human action. In justice as fairness men agree to avail themselves of the accidents of nature and social circumstance only when doing so is for the common benefit. The two principles are a fair way of meeting the arbitrariness of fortune; and while no doubt imperfect in other ways, the institutions which satisfy these principles are just.

Way, Nature

„You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.“

— Louise L. Hay American writer 1926 - 2017

World, Thinking

„Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.“

— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946

Alcohol

„This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.“

— Corrie ten Boom, book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

God, Past, Future, Perfection

„My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.“

— Julius Evola Italian philosopher and esotericist 1898 - 1974

„Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.“

— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

15 July 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Original: (nl) Ouders kunnen alleen raad of goede aanwijzingen meegeven, de uiteindelijke vorming van iemands karakter ligt in zijn eigen hand.

Parent, Graduation, For Parents

„A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.“

— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936

Love, Life, Feeling, Sense

„There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.“

— William Barclay Church of Scotland minister and academic 1907 - 1978

Life, Birthday, Wise, Life

„I just like having fun. It's a very good release, rock music, but you know you say that I am a different person on stage and that same thing could be said of anyone going out to do his job. It's my work, and I'm very serious about it, getting it right - when we began, we approached it the way we did because we were not prepared to be out-of-work musicians, ever. We said either take it on as a serious commodity or don't do it at all.“

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991

"The Man Who Would Be Queen" in Melody Maker (2 May 1981) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_05-02-1981_-_Melody_Maker.

Music, Way

„It isn't about "games", for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself.“

— Shigeru Miyamoto Japanese video game designer and producer 1952

Source: GDC 2011

Game

„The past year and a half has been really transitional for me, just personally, as well as transitioning into becoming a woman.“

— Selena Gomez American singer and actress 1992

Past

„I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.“

— Irena Sendler Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910 - 2008

As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4314145.stm

Religion

„My personality is not defined by what you can see with your eyes.“

— E.M.S Nigerian rapper, singer and record producer 1995

"Trapped"

„I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.“

— Lana Del Rey American singer-songwriter 1985

Daily Mail (25 January 2012)

Love, Life, People, Hope

„A healthy person goes "Yes," "No," and "Whoopee!" An unhealthy person goes "Yes, but," "No, but," and "No whoopee."“

— Eric Berne Canadian psychiatrist 1910 - 1970

Quoted in They Shoot Managers, Don't They? http://books.google.com/books?id=iXkq-lFFJpcC&lpg=PP1&dq=They%20shoot%20managers%2C%20don't%20they&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false by Terry L. Paulson, pg. 3

„Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy. (…) I am proud to have lied. Lying under torture is not easy. In the face of torture, a person with dignity lies. Enduring torture is very difficult (…) The pain is unbearable; you can not imagine how. I am proud to have lied, because I saved my comrades from the same torture and from death.“

— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947

Responding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiyezo1fLRs to Senator José Agripino Maia - former member of ARENA, ruling party of the military dictatorship - in a Senate hearing, May 7. He suggested that, for having lied when she was interrogated by the political police, she could also have been lying about the leak of data of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's personal expenditures.
2008

Death, Pain, Democracy, Imagination

„I'm very happy, very delighted.... for I am surrounded here by all that I love. I spent my time out of doors.... and naturally I'm working all the time, and I think this year I'm going to do some serious things. And then in the evening, dear fellow, I come home to my little cottage to find a good fire and a dear little family... Dear friend, it's a delight to watch this person [his first son Jean, born in 1867] grow, and I am glad to have him to be sure…“

— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926

in a letter to Frédéric Bazille: as cited by K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 22
1850 - 1870

Love, Family, Home, Nature

„Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986

1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Fear

„Leroy Anderson is an American original - direct, honest, personal, idiosyncratic, and free of pretension. His music is directed to, and reflective of, the American soul.“

— John Williams American composer, conductor and pianist 1932

John Williams, conductor laureate, Boston Pops Orchestra, Leroy Anderson Square Dedication, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 17, 2003.
Source: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/07.17/12-anderson.html

Music, Soul

„Take off all the mask, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use and be the most honest person you can be with yourself, then whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results…“

— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017

Clothes, Falseness, Love, Making love

„I conceived the idea from my personal everyday experience, so what's better than to capture myself in the perfect mood.“

— NasserTone Nasser Ali Albahrani is a director, cinematographer, photographer, producer, & YouTuber, who was born on April 3, 1994,… 1994

Panorama Magazine Article (September 19, 2010)

Perfection, Idea, Mood

„When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.“

— Viktor E. Frankl Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor 1905 - 1997

Pleasure, Sense

„As an author, my goal is to spread and make sure that the message gets to you. Just like the person who invented the calendar, could not predict what will happen tomorrow.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

„One person's craziness is another person's reality.“

— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958

Variant: One person's crazyness is another person's reality

Reality

„Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.“

— Viktor E. Frankl Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor 1905 - 1997

„Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.“

— Matt Haig, book Reasons to Stay Alive

Variant: So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”
“Pretty much.
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Love

„Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.“

— Andrea Dworkin Feminist writer 1946 - 2005

Source: Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Women, Thinking

„Numbers aren’t the important thing … what matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.“

— Haruki Murakami, book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

The Kidney-shaped Stone that Moves Every Day (translated by Jay Rubin)
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Time, Heart

„Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.“

— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

As quoted in Spin (August 1996), p. 34.
1990s

„The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated. The burden of men was so heavy for God Himself that He had to endure the Cross. God verily bore the burden of men in the body of Jesus Christ. But He bore them as a mother carries her child, as a shepherd enfolds the lost lamb that has been found. God took men upon Himself and they weighted Him to the ground, but God remained with them and they with God. In bearing with men God maintained fellowship with them. It was the law of Christ that was fulfilled in the Cross. And Christians must share in this law.“

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Men, God, Law, Suffering

„We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.“

— Angelina Jolie American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975

Love, Learning, Perfection, Wise

„When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.“

— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926

Suffering, Help, Hurtful

„The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.“

— Paulo Coelho, book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Soul

„I think you can love a person too much.

You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.“

— Jodi Picoult, book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Love, Thinking, Time

„The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.“

— Louis Zamperini Italian-American middle distance runner 1917 - 2014

Source: Devil at My Heels

Forgiveness, Past

„Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal“

— Murray N. Rothbard American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian political theorist, and historian 1926 - 1995

„if you learn to hate one or two persons… you'll soon hate millions of people.“

— Jerry Spinelli, book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Hate, People, Learning

„The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.“

— Karl Barth Swiss Protestant theologian 1886 - 1968

„I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.“

— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

Variant: I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to be forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

God, People, World, Art

„I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.“

— Henry Miller American novelist 1891 - 1980

Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

Love, Soul, Search

„The personal appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you.“

— Marco Polo Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia 1254 - 1324

Source: The Travels

Appearance

„It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.“

— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Love, Hurt

„I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.“

— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

People, Stupidity

„The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.“

— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

War, Soul

„The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.“

— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

„To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.“

— Thomas Ligotti American horror author 1953

Sense

„Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!“

— Dr. Seuss, book Fox in Socks

Horton Hears a Who! (1954)
Source: Fox in Socks

„Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.“

— Hazrat Inayat Khan Indian Sufi 1882 - 1927

Source: Mastery through Accomplishment

Life, Stupidity

„Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
…"At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Love

„Love… no such thing.

Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.“

— Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891

Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

Love, Stupidity, Fear, Family

„Is it painful to be the person who waits? Or is it more painful to be the person who makes others wait? Either way, there's no need to wait anymore. That's what is most painful." - Osamu Dazai“

— Osamu Dazai Japanese author 1909 - 1948

Source: Run, Melos! and Other Stories

Pain, Way, Waiting

„I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.“

— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Hate, Sleep, Heart

„The creative person should have no other biography than his works.“

— B. Traven German novelist 1890 - 1969

Source: Quoted by Red Marriott in " Traven, B. – An Anti-Biography https://libcom.org/library/b-traven-anti-biography" (2007)

Ref: en.wikiquote.org - B. Traven / Quotes