Personalization Quotes (page 226)

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• true
• change
• may

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are. Alain de Botton

• manly
• helpful
• you me

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to... Abraham Lincoln

• love
• world
• personal

How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love? Suzanne Collins

• personality
• personal
• essay

That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person! David Foster Wallace

• special person
• you me
• personal

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person Jodi Picoult

• little
• men
• learning

It is under all circumstances an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, otherwise the repressed elements will only crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, not just at some unimportant point, but at the very spot where we are most sensitive. If people can be educated to see the shadow-side of their nature clearly, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more self-knowledge can only have good... Carl Jung

• beautiful
• powerful
• power

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power. Carl Jung

• small
• personality
• personal

Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly. E. B. White

• people
• personal
• personality

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people. Haruki Murakami

• people
• unity
• humanity

But when he know that he is not only worse than all those in the world, but is also guilty before all people, on behalf of all and for all, for all human sins, the world's and each person's, only then will the goal of our unity be achieved. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• personality
• personal
• easy

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208 Stephenie Meyer

• gossip
• personal
• thoughts

He (The warden) was painfully afraid of a disagreement with any person in any subject....he felt horror at the thought of being made the subject of common gossip and public criticism. Anthony Trollope

• personality
• personal
• life

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you. Jodi Picoult

• freedom
• personality
• personal

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents. Haruki Murakami

• military
• thoughts
• personal

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood. Pat Conroy