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Personality Quotes (page 148)

The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitor? . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal cando? . How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman
One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are? Ezra Taft Benson
Haruki Murakami quote: "Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion"
Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion Haruki Murakami
I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure. Helen Fielding
For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature. A. Whitney Brown
...without disturbing the radiance which played and darted about the simple and lovely miracle of being two persons named Adam and Miranda, twenty four years old each, alive and on earth at the same moment: 'Are you in the mood for dancing?' and 'I'm always in the mood for dancing, Adam!' but there were things in the way, the day that ended with dancing was a long way to go. Katherine Anne Porter
Leo Buscaglia quote: "Find the person who will love you because of your differences..."
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. Leo Buscaglia
John Wooden quote: "Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the..."
Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read. John Wooden
To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive. Nathaniel Branden
Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if... Noam Chomsky
I try to kind of enlightened my frustration and agony by coming to the conclusion that I may not be useful as an economist but I m still a basic human being. I can juts go out and stand next to human being. And see if there s anything I can do to another person. Even for a day if it is help pay for more a day I feel more a little bit better. Muhammad Yunus
While I hate to ever lose a supporter, I've come to realize that one who would abandon me over a single statement or decision I made is a person who would abandon me sooner or later anyway. Mike Huckabee
Stephen Covey quote: "The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the..."
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Stephen Covey
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is... Sarah Vowell
It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape. David Sedaris

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