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

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

“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.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President

Life, God, Secret, Hope

“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.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Personality

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

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Love, Personality

“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”

Malcolm X book The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Water, Personality

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

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Source: Something to Smile about: Encouragement and Inspiration for Life's Ups and Downs

Smile, Help, Personality

“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.”

Tamora Pierce book Cold Fire

Source: Cold Fire

Thinking, Sleep, Personality, Night

“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.”

Brad Meltzer book The Book of Lies

Source: The Book of Lies

Life, Pain, Understanding, Betrayal

“Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Source: ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics

Way, Time, Personality

“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

People, Sense, Personality

“I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Way, Personality

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Thinking, Personality

“When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Personality

“Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

World, Thinking, Sense, Personality

“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality”

Mario Vargas Llosa book The Bad Girl

Source: Travesuras de la niña mala

Love, Heart, Personality

“It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

Love, Soul, Personality

“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Personality

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

History, Failure, Success, Personality

“It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.”

Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness

Source: Too Much Happiness

World, Personality, Happiness

“At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.”

Karen Salmansohn American writer

Personality

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Roald Dahl book The Twits

Source: The Twits

Love, Personality

“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

Hope, Personality

“Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

Thinking, Personality

“My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who agrees with me.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 35.

Idea, Personality

“Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.”

Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy

Source: A Suitable Boy

Thinking, Personality, Happiness

“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Source: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 249

Success, Personality

“When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Marriage, Age, Question, Time

“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.”

Betty Friedan book The Feminine Mystique

Interviews with Betty Friedan, Janann Sherman, ed. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 1578064805, p. x.
Source: The Feminine Mystique

Way, Personality

“Love is being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality”

Susan Polis Schutz (1944) American poet

Love, Truth, Reality, Time

“Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Quoted by Maya Angelou (quote reproduced in James L. Conyers, Andrew P. Smallwood, Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, Carolina Academic Press, 2008, p. 181 and Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli, Maya Angelou: More than a poet, Enslow Publishers, 1996, p. 90)
Attributed

Thinking, Time, Personality

“because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Soul, Personality

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Freedom, Personality

“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

29 December 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's "one and only".
Source: Cliffs Notes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank

Love, People, Personality

“The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.”

Nick Joaquín (1917–2004) Filipino writer

Source: Culture and History

Personality

“If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”

Virginia Woolf book Night and Day

Source: Night and Day

Feeling, Reality, Personality

“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

People, Effort, Personality, Happiness

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride."

"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Love, Lie, Secret, Personality

“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

World, Dependency, Personality, Happiness

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p. 69

Shoe, Personality

“Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Heart, Personality

“For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor

Personality

“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Personality

“We're all in the dark. We try to find out, but can you imagine anything more ludicrous than one person's opinion of another person? One goes along thinking one knows; but one really doesn't know”

Virginia Woolf book The Voyage Out

Source: The Voyage Out

Imagination, Thinking, Personality

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Law, Personality

“There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.”

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist

Dependency, Personality

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

Truth, Personality

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

Source: The Second Sin (1973), p. 49.

People, Personality

“You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Love, Life, God, Time

“Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Becoming Human

Joy, Parting, Personality

“Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

Death, Age, Personality

“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Relationship, Personality

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

Personality

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

Malachy McCourt (1931) Irish-American actor, writer and politician

Waiting, Personality

“You are awareness, disguised as a person.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Personality

“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

People, Reading, Personality, Madness

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

Source: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

Way, Time, Personality

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Friendship, Relationship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“… whenever there is inspiration… and enthusiasm… there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Personality

“… every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.”

Orhan Pamuk book Snow

Source: Snow

Secret, Star, Heart, Personality

“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Source: Journal of a Solitude

People, Effort, Time, Personality

“I’m a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Lovers, Reality, Hurt, Personality

“True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one”

P. C. Cast (1960) American writer

Source: Goddess of the Sea

Love, Soul, Drink, Personality

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Idea, Personality

“When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Love, Life, Feeling, Personality

“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”

Anthony Kiedis book Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

Life, Hate, Personality

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20

World, Dreams, Baby, Personality

“All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident
enabling unpopular persons to survive.”

Bertrand Russell book In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Personality

“Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Men, World, Literature, Personality

“Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

World, Thinking, Time, Personality

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Thinking, Personality

“Who's the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who's horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”

Rebecca Stead (1968) American children's writer

Source: Goodbye Stranger

Forgiveness, Parting, Personality

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Feeling, Strong, Personality

“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.”

Meghan O'Rourke (1976) American writer

Source: The Long Goodbye

Truth, Loss, Personality, Dead

“You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

Girl, Personality

“There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Life, Decision, Personality

“Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.”

Saul Bellow book The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

Love, People, World, Personality

“You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.”

Dave Pelzer book The Lost Boy

Source: The Lost Boy

Life, Understanding, Decision, Personality

“Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Personality, Happiness

“When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.”

L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology

Books, Understanding, Study, Learning

“You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: Tales of Power

Way, Feeling, Time, Personality

“Just because you’re a zombie doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Night Watch

Personality

“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

Personality

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Books, Time, Reading, Personality

“Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

World, Star, Personality

“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book Confessions

Source: Confessions

Feeling, Soul, Heart, Personality

“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

Time, Personality

“Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977) Indian guru

Source: The Bhagavad-gita

Personality, Happiness

“Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Feeling, Personality, Forgetting

“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”

Mark Twain book Tom Sawyer Abroad

Source: Tom Sawyer Abroad

Home, Cats, Knowledge, Personality

“One person can keep a secret, but not two.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

Secret, Personality

“The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Love, People, Change, Personality

“… you canʹt
always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or
fair. It just happens.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Evercrossed

Love, Personality

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

C.G. Jung book Mysterium Coniunctionis

Mysterium Coniunctionis http://books.google.com/books?id=avckAQAAMAAJ&q=%22If+one+does+not+understand+a+person+one+tends+to+regard+him+as+a+fool%22&pg=PA125#v=onepage, from The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (1966)

Fools, Understanding, Personality

“The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.”

Christine de Pizan book The Book of the City of Ladies

Cellui ou celle en qui plus a vertus est le plus hault, ne la haulteur ou abbaisement des gens ne gist mie es corps selon le sexe mais en la perfeccion des meurs et des vertus.
Part I, ch. 9, p. 24.
Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (c. 1405)
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies

Sex, Personality, Perfection

“I try to be good but sometimes
a person just has to break out and
act like the wild and springy thing
one used to be. It's impossible not
to remember wild an want it back.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Personality

“person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Personality

“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Personality

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.”

T.S. Eliot book Tradition and the Individual Talent

Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Context: The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. Both errors tend to make him "personal." Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Personality

“the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”

Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality

World, Personality

“… it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Courage, Appearance, Personality

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