Quotes About Personality

We humans are born with intuitions, drives, and personality traits that determine how we interact with the world around us. These dispositions—both inherited and acquired—lie at the very core of who we are as human beings.8

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather

If you are a nice person and you are a writer, that's two strikes against you.

I am Savani.

Choices determine character.

That hat looks ridiculous." "Fortunately, I can change hats," Wayne said, "while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

A person was like a dense forest thicket, overgrown with a twisting mess of vines, weeds, shrubs, saplings, and flowers. No person was one single emotion; no person had only one desire. They had many, and usually those desires conflicted with one another like two rosebushes fighting for the same patch of ground.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

It turned out that strange little girls grow up to be strange young women.

I'm like that," she said. "Wild mood swings. It makes me more interesting.

You're still human," Shallan said, reaching across, putting her hand on Navani's knee. "We can't all be emotionless chunks of rock like Jasnah." Navani smiled. "She sometimes had the empathy of a corpse, didn't she?

It's better if I have a hat...You wanna know a guy? Put on his hat." -Wayne.

My little Jasnah, insufferable and wonderful.

Adolin might claim he was a different from his father, but in fact they were two shades of the same paint. Often, two similar colors clashed worse than wildly different ones would.

Look who's full of himself," MeLaan said from her chair. "He's always full of himself," Wayne said, cracking a walnut. "Mostly on account of him eatin' his own fingernails. I seen him do it.

You could tell a lot about people from the way they talked. You saw their past, their upbringing, their aspirations—all in the words they used.

He had been more complex than that. Every person was.

Perhaps that was the advantage to persistently messy hair--he managed to make it go with anything.

Just under half of the leaders we interviewed initially talked about courage as a personality trait, not a skill. They typically approached the question about specific skills with a "Well, you either have it or you don't" answer.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

Self-deception is the enemy of wholeness because it prevents us from seeing ourselves as we really are. It covers up our lack of growth in the Spirit of the truthful One and keeps us from coming to terms with our real personalities.

One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says the first disease is not terminal. Hope is built into the structure of our personalities, into the depths of our unconscious; it plagues us to the very moment of our death. The critical question is whether hope is self-deception, the ultimate cruelty of a cruel and tricky universe, or whether it is just possibly the imprint of reality.