Personality proverbs

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◆ Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

- William Faulkner99

◆ I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

- Beatrix Potter99

◆ I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

- L.M. Montgomery99

◆ I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together.

- Deb Caletti99

◆ I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

- Brandon Sanderson99

◆ I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.

- Avery Sawyer99

◆ Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

- Clarence Darrow99

◆ Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

- Sigmund Freud99

◆ 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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

- T.S. Eliot99

◆ If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the 'creative temperament'--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ He really was beautiful. I know boys aren't supposed to be, but he was.

- John Green99

◆ ...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

- Nicole Krauss99

◆ The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

- Sigmund Freud99