Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
Bret Easton EllisTags: evil personality behavior
I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?
Lauren BarnholdtTags: people personality introvert
For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?
Virginia WoolfTags: psychology personality
Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts
Rory MillerTags: growing-up change psychology personality butterfly evolving
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom books music poetry vision philosophy literature water light poets personality impossible transformation quotes sound possible sand poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun grimace impersonal
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: emotions struggle feelings depression personality best worst moody
Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?
Ashly LorenzanaTags: happiness perspective emotions depression personality intensity
Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.
Zadie SmithTags: books television personality
She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
Ernest HemingwayTags: inspirational beauty personality eyes looking
The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.
Leo TolstoyTags: humanism personality admirable-qualities
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