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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
-Aristotle
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Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
-Roseanne Barr
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
-Norman O. Brown
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Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
-John Burroughs
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
-Thomas Carlyle
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As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
-Alexis Carrel
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
-G. K. Chesterton
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A person's fate is their own temper.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
-Sigmund Freud
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
-Erich Fromm
Man for Himself
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After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.
-Antonio Gramsci
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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Guardian Angel
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Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
-Martin Luther
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A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
-Gustav Mahler, Advice to his wife Anna
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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
-Nelson Mandela
Higher Than Hope (authorized biography), 1991
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A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-George H. Mead
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The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.
-Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain, pt. 3, ch. 2 describing Merton's impressions following his first visit to the Trappist monastery which he later joined, 1948
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People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
-Henry Morgan
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
-Charles M. Schwab
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Books about Personality
