If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
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Quotes tagged ‘Personality’
Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? It is even possible to dislike our old selves, those disposable ancestors of ours. For instance, my hi…
You think you’re yourself, but there are other persons in you.
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone’s so shocked or impressed that you’re baring your soul, while to you it’s nothing, because you know you’ve twenty more layers to go.
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
There's an entire section in the bookshop called self-help. What we need is a section called help others.
Your true test of character is revealed in your words and actions when no one is looking.
There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.
I'm meaner than my demons.
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
Find someone who will love your soul more than your body.
Everyone knows you are 'nice, smart, fun, and sweet,' but there are thousands of other single girls online saying the same damn thing about themselves. Plus, guys have learned to dismiss those generic descriptions since they've been on dates with women who describe themselves the same way but are to…
Don't use a laundry list to describe your personality or say what your friends think of you. Instead create sentences that give a true feeling of who you are. For example, 'One of the most fun trips I've taken was white water rafting on the Colorado River—that was so exciting!' instead of 'My friend…
Inner beauty can fade, too.
I gave up nice a long time ago. Nice did me no good as a woman. Niceness is a lie they teach you to keep you sweet and compliant while you’re screaming inside. You know what I picked instead? Kindness. I chose to be kind. Kind means I respect your boundaries and you respect mine.
The truth about the women who are forced to play these interesting chapters is that they are doing so in the memoirs of men who never deserved them. That the really good story, the story worth telling, has been theirs all along.
I like getting older, I feel like I’m aging into my personality.
I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.
Once it was proposed to me that it was all right to be like I am, I finally quit apologizing for it.