Quotes About Person

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

The reality of a person is a deep and hidden thing, buried not only in the invisible recesses of man's own metaphysical secrecy but in the secrecy of God Himself.

These too are integral elements in personality and therefore in sanctity—because a saint is one whom God's love has fully developed into a person in the likeness of his Creator.

We must check the inspirations that come to us in the depths of our own conscience against the revelation that is given to us with divinely certain guaranteers by those who have inherited in our midst the place of Christ's Apostles?by those who speak to us in the Name of Christ and as it were in His own Person. Qui vos audit me audit; qui vos spernit, me spernit.

The costs of achieving justice matter. Another way of saying the same thing is that "justice at all costs" is not justice. What, after all, is an injustice but the arbitrary imposition of a cost—whether economic, psychic, or other—on an innocent person? And if correcting this injustice imposes another arbitrary cost on another innocent person, is that not also an injustice?

You cannot save another person from his or her spiritual lessons, no matter how much you may want to or how hard you try.

I didn't say he wasn't a good employer, just that he's not going to be awarded a Sane Person of the Year award.

I've never seen such a beautiful and noble person before. I'll capture you…and take you hooome!

Ishigami's design. Yet it all still seemed too unreal to be true. Killing a person to hide a murder – who would think of something like that? Of course, that's the point. He didn't want us to think of it.

within the same person described ... we have not one or even two but at least three distinct entities. 1. The old sin nature-the root cause of all sin. 2. The new divine nature-which is unable to sin. 3. The believer-who chooses which of the other two will be in control.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

you'll need to be prepared to deliver a high-value proposition. You've got very little time to articulate why that person should not try to get off the phone as quickly as possible. Remember, it's all about them. What can you do for them?

I'm afraid any plans you have to kill him will have to wait—I believe he is the only person on the ship who can handle the maneuvering properly." Klag grinned. "Pity, that." "It's all part of my cunning plan," Leskit drawled from the pilot's station. "I'm trying to make myself indispensable." "Some of us would settle for useful," Klag said

Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. I think some of it is that there is so much pressure to be that person that you become it, maybe, to a certain point you can bear. It's impossible not to end up being a parody of what you thought you were.

There's a strange intimacy between a lost animal and the person who finds him. In terms of time, what you've shared is tiny and insignificant, but that moment is a vital pivot in the animal's life, the line between his old life and a better, new one. In some cases that fine line is the one between life and death.

Surely, it would not take much to distinguish between the character of a person who foresaw a world ending "not with a bang but a whimper," and one who feared some mighty holocaust, as were the planets ripped into smithereens by explosions from within.

We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns towards you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence. Speak of a tree full of leaves, Of a flying bird, the new Moon in the sunset, a poem, A book, a person - all the Casual hfrankealing speech Of your resonant, quiet voice. — Kenneth Rexroth, from "Loneliness," The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth , (New Directions January 17, 1966)

The concept "rights" is a deduction from the fundamental fact of self-ownership. The claim to property in one's own person is a moral claim to noninterference and exclusivity. No person has a claim on any other person's life (i.e., their body, mind, and actions).

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Show me a sane person and I will cure him for you.

Medicine has until recently gone on the supposition that illness should be treated and cured by itself; yet voices are now heard which declare this view to be wrong, and demand the treatment of the sick person and not of the sickness. The same demand is forced upon us in the treatment of psychic suffering.

For an inwardly sound and self-confident person will be more adequate to his social tasks than one who is not on good terms with his unconscious.

Addiction is a condition in which a person engages in use of a substance or in a behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental consequences.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.