#person

Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies. ↗

— Heather Schuck

#inspirational-quotes #life-coaching #life-lesson #personal-responsibility #attitude

On calm days, you always think you've conquered them.  You think that in the end you've finally done them in. That you've got rid of them for good, now and forever. But that seldom happens. Most of the time, the demons are still there, lurking somewhere in the shadows. Tirelessly waiting for the moment when our guard drops. And when love goes away... ↗

— Guillaume Musso

#love

I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this. ↗

— Elliot Mabeuse

#elliot-mabeuse #knowing-a-person #love #life

Great fiction is the art of a soul. ↗

— Douglas Christiansen

#fiction #personal-philosophy #art

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#personality #humor

Don’t be that kind of person who goes about falling in love everywhere. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#person #love

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#personalities #personality #pieces #journalism

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#personal-growth #love

There’s no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It’s just the rules. You could say it’s against our religion, more or less. ↗

— Lisa Desrochers

#personal-demons #love

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers. ↗

— Susan Cain

#extroverts #introverts #persona #personality #power