Quotes about personality

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“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

“You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”

“It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.”

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.”

“In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”

“As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.”

“An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.”

“Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”

“The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.”

“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”

“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.”

“The most dangerous kind of person… is one who is afraid of his own shadow.”

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

“Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.”

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond, that character—not wealth or power or position—is of supreme worth.

I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.”

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will.”

“[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.”

“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

“But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.”

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”

“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”

“You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.”

“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!”

“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”

“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”

“The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.”

“A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”

“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”

“You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.”

“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

“Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.”

“The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.”

“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”

“She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.”

“I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.”

“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person…. Reading is bliss.”

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

“Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.”

“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.”

“I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.”

“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't go trying to patent it, okay?”

“Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.”

“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”

“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”

“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”

“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”

“Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.”

“The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.”

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”

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

“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”

“Things every person should have:

•A nemesis.
•An evil twin.
•A secret headquarters.
•An escape hatch.
•A partner in crime.
•A secret identity.”

“We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.”

“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.”

“Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.”

“But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“No” is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.”

“Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.”

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.”

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”

“… inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”

“Each person's life – each lifeform,
in fact – represents a world, a
unique way in which the universe experiences itself.”

“There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself”

“Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.”

“a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.”

“Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.”

“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”

“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …”

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."

"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.”

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”

“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”

“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”

“The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.”

“Hate is too mild of a word. But it's nothing personal, I don't think.”

“A visiting pastor at our church in Plains once told a story about a priest from New Orleans. Father Flanagan’s parish lay in the central part of the city, close to many taverns. One night he was walking down the street and saw a drunk thrown out of a pub. The man landed in the gutter, and Father Flanagan quickly recognized him as one of his parishioners, a fellow named Mike. Father Flanagan shook the dazed man and said, “Mike!” Mike opened his eyes and Father Flanagan said, “You’re in trouble. If there is anything I can do for you, please tell me what it is.ℍ “Well, Father,” Mike replied, “I hope you’ll pray for me.” “Yes,” the priest answered, “I’ll pray for you right now.” He knelt down in the gutter and prayed, “Father, please have mercy on this drunken man.ℍ At this, a startled Mike woke up fully and said, “Father, please don’t tell God I’m drunk.ℍ Sometimes we don’t feel much of a personal relationship between God and ourselves, as though we have a secret life full of failures and sins that God knows nothing about. We want to involve God only when we plan to give thanks or when we’re in trouble and need help. But the rest of our lives, we’d rather keep to ourselves.”

“I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.”

“The name of a person you love is more than language.”

“Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better."
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X”

“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~”

“The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.”

“I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.”