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

Maybe I am an Old Soul among Young Bodies.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 opinion of me is what sets the tone of my personality

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Not what hatches out is the face to the world.

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.

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.

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

One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete disputations of armchair scholars. He grapples with them himself, in his own lifetime.

One of the thousand objections to the sin of pride lies precisely in this, that self-consciousness of necessity destroys sel-revelation. A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism.

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

Only foolish fishes wish to fly!

... orang kinestetis, didominasi perasaan yang halus, mereka senang dengan kata-kata yang ramah dan halus, manja, senang dilindungi, romantis, gampang sedih, gampang gembira, gampang tersinggung, kalau mencari pacar tidak mementingkan tampang dan suara bagus, yang penting kasih sayang. Menurut kami, orang seperti ini tidak cocok kerja di majalah, pasti merepotkan.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches...

Opposites attract in physics. In life, like attracts like. Kindness attracts kindness. Greed attracts greed. Love attracts love. If you don't like what you're attracting, change who you are.

Our identity is like a kaleidoscope. With each turn we reset it not to a former or final state but to a new one that reflects the here-and-now positions of the pieces we have to work with. The design is always new because the shifts are continual. That is what makes kaleidoscopes, and us, so appealing and beautiful.

Our purpose in mortality collectively, is to pioneer godliness; with each of our unique personalities and perspectives, we are searching out the pieces of the divine puzzle. Possibly before this life is over, but certainly after, there will be a great collaboration, and we will all bring our pieces of the puzzle together that we have found. Each piece on its own is quite an odd spectacle, but together they are beautiful and amazing—the whole mystery of mortality and eternal life. ‘What pieces are you holding? What good have you found? Bring it together and we will all rejoice.

Our personalities define our realities.

Our “selves”, our “being”, our “ego”, our “soul”, our individuality, our personality, … is only our mind continuously adapting to its environment to insure survival and well-being, working with whatever inherited predispositions (formed by previous generations of minds adapting to their environment) it has to work with. If we could only make our beautiful mind come in contact with the facts, ALL the facts… , we could trust it with the rest, ALL the rest. Our beautiful mind will always do the right thing. Always. The thing is to find the facts. ALL the facts. Not one less.