155 quotes found
“The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine ...”
“It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?”
“My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.”
“Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?”
“Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life within the confines of normal? Had I stopped arguing with my personality and learned to straddle...”
“Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?”
“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not Heaven help us all having lodgment at one time or another in t...”
“Conscience is the eye that watches an honest man, and the guide that keeps his actions even in secret. Hence, other men's views takes a secondary position.”
“Your soul is your sacred self.”
“Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom”
“To use the term 'clerk' as an insult is simply a banal vulgarity; Pessoa and Svevo, however would have welcomed it as a just attribute of the poet. The latter does not resemble Achilles or Diomedes...”
“We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our luggage for Customs inspection, the contents of our bags were a fair indication ...”
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. Its absurd. We run the risk of warping whats best in us”
“To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.”
“Personality is a strategy devised by a child. Our true, original self lies under our personality, in the transpersonal ground of our being, at our core.”
“But, its not what they think of you that matters, its what you think of yourself. If Id said something mean to them, I wouldn't like myself very much.”
“Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.”
“The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're o...”
“You are special person. Seek to develop your talents.”
“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 m...”
