#person

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#i #inside #just #person #trapped

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#believing #creation #every #himself #his

It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its virtues, that old boom: Life was a great deal larger and gayer for most people, and the stampede to the Spartan virtues in times of war and famine shouldn't make us too dizzy to remember its hilarious glory. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#personal-quote #life

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person. ↗

— Greg Lake

#art #because #business #challenges #goal

We must realize that we are all, like Dr. Faust, ready to accept the devil's inducements. The devil is in each one of us in the form of an ego that promises the fulfillment of desire on condition that we become subservient to its striving to dominate. The domination of the personality by the ego is a diabolical perversion of the nature of man. The ego was never intended to be the master of the body, but its loyal and obedient servant. The body, as opposed to the ego, desires pleasure, not power. Bodily pleasure is the source from which all our good feelings and good thinking stems. If the bodily pleasure of an individual is destroyed, he becomes an angry, frustrated, and hateful person. His thinking becomes distorted, and his creative potential is lost. He develops self-destructive attitudes. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#ego #personality #self #selfhelp #attitude

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#career #deacon #football #inspirational #jones

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#nature-death #personal-growth #stagnation #work #beauty

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#know #leave #legacies #love #people

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic. ↗

— Truman Capote

#personality #change

If not us, then who? If not now, then when? ↗

— John Lewis

#change #civil-rights #integrity #moral-courage #personal-responsibility