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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
— Albert Camus
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
— Oswald Chambers
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Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear,…
— Debbie Ford
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The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want…
— Marianne Williamson
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A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our…
— Carl Jung
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Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of…
— Julia Serano
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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our…
— Piero Ferrucci
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert…
— Albert Camus
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It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality.…
— Watchman Nee
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
— Robert Bly
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We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just…
— Beth Moore
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