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Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

Love is more than just a pretty face with a nice personality.

Love who you are and want you want to be.

Loyalty makes you family; Keep this rare personality

Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be calm and self-centred. If a man takes their cloak, they are to give him their coat, just to show that material things are of no importance. If people abuse them, they are not to answer back. What does it signify? The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.

Many a time, you may not even have to speak, however difficult the situation; your goatee speaks for you.

Mathilde returned and strolled past the drawing-room windows; she saw him busily engaged in describing to Madame de Fervaques the old ruined castles that crown the steep banks of the Rhine and give them so distinctive a character. He was beginning to acquit himself none too badly in the use of the sentimental and picturesque language which is called wit in certain drawing-rooms.

Maybe a combination of things in this world are our true soul mates.

Maybe I am an Old Soul among Young Bodies.

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a competition between legitimate opposing interests. Philosophy is likely to be a tension between competing half truths. A personality is likely to be a battleground of valuable but incompatible traits.

Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.

Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her – they did not know why.

Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.

Mediocrity is not in the means but keeping a profile that negates healthy thinking.

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, personalized identity has a subtext: it asserts the value of instrumentality. Its design is a reflection of its role... The anonymity of these objects is part of what they are: interchangeable commodities whose uniqueness in so far as they possess any is created by what is done with them. Function is an identity. And that identity is something we are encouraged to incorporate into our perception of self, that anonymity is proposed as something to emulate. Whimsy and uniqueness are indulgences.

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in which the pill can be sugared and the public induced to look at works dealing with ideas.

Mr Lysander Rief looks like someone who is far more at ease occupying the cold security of the dark; a man happier with the dubious comfort of the shadows.

Mr. Rip Wan winkle, be a star that twinkle.

Music is poetry with personality

My own personality changed drastically in a span of 3-4 years just by changing the environment I was living in and by taking conscious daily actions.

My opinion of me is what sets the tone of my personality

My mother once said, 'If you come across a man with more than one personality, you can be sure he's looking for himself in one of them, because he has no character.' But I think she was wrong

My own personality, which was molded by the furnace of time and circumstances… strengthened by the touchstone of varied experiences, has changed a bit due to the benevolence and graciousness of people around me but I have never felt trapped in the nets of influence.

My poems - they sprang from the depths of my being.

My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it's a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is and it will be their loss.

Nadie debería creerse perfecto, ni preocuparse demasiado por el hecho de no serlo.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one. Will [Hamilton] had concealed his well, laughed loud, exploited perverse virtues, and never let his jealousy go wandering [...] He was always on the edge, trying to hold on to the rim of the family with what gifts he had - care, and reason, application. He kept the books, hired the attorneys, called the undertaker, and eventually paid the bills. The others didn't even know they needed him.

No matter how well you garnish a dish, it wouldn't impress anyone if it didn't taste good.

Nobody is paying attention to the fact that first of all, a man has to build himself and become a personality

Nem sempre uma linda cara Traduz encanto no mundo Há mil fontes d'água clara Cheias de lodo no fundo.

Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are.

No sabía qué era el carácter, ni qué grado de coacción era necesario para que se rompiera y se adaptara a una nueva forma que no se parecía en nada a la persona que la «Familia», los «Amigos íntimos» e incluso los «No tan íntimos» imaginaban haber conocido. Era posible incluso que el «carácter» y la «personalidad», su prima más superficial, fueran sutilezas, meros detalles, caprichos ornamentales de la buena salud, entretenimientos opcionales, como los bolos a los que los enfermos no se podían permitir jugar.

Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggles bring them into conflict with the normal life of average people and the traditional values and bourgeois conventions that they uphold. A personality is the product of a clash between two opposing forces: the urge to create a life of one's own and the insistence by the world around us that we conform. Nobody can develop a personality unless he undergoes revolutionary experiences. The extent of those experiences differs, of course, from person to person, as does the capacity to lead a life that is truly personal and unique.

Not depending on external gentleness and kindliness, one of the fundamental differences between male and female personalities is that the former tends to 'break' the opposite sex, but the latter to be broken by him. Male and female brains are designed to get pleasure from that breaking and being broken, respectively, within some acceptable limits. The more self-confident and stubborn a woman, the more intense unconscious desire to be broken by some aggressive and chauvinistic male intervention once. Not depending on how she would like to have the air of self-assured confidence, nothing could prevent her from dreaming of getting a hidden pleasure from it.

Notions are biggest barrier to ones personality.

Not what hatches out is the face to the world.

Novels are what I know, and the novel door in my personality is always open.

Of course, you are who you are. But you can be a hundred different versions of yourself. You decide whether you’ll be a lazy bastard or a person who dedicates his/her life to making a difference in this world. You decide whether you’ll be a judgmental jerk or a person who purposefully designs and lives an exciting, fulfilled life. You are you. But you can, and you must pick which “you” you want to be. It’s your choice. Nobody else’s.

Of everyone I have ever met, I would say Agnes was the most difficult to put into words. She was an extremely rare concoction of forthright character, amoral habits and restrained manners.

One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality

Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all

Of the classic fIve W's and an H, Amy's approach seemed to be that when you have a handle on the WHO, the rest will more or less reveal itself accordingly.

Only foolish fishes wish to fly!