#persona

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual. ↗

— Sela Ward

#am #belief #find #god #i

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#personal-growth

I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made, such as choosing to emigrate to America; ones their parents made, like my Papa Butler opting to ignore medical advice and instead warming my mum in the oven to keep her alive; and very conscious ones that I've made for myself. ↗

— John Barrowman

#personal-growth

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#growth #personal-growth

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights. ↗

— Deborah Day

#personal-growth #personal-growth

By 2000, Americans had built almost twice as much retail space per citizen as any other country in the world: over nineteen square feet per person. Most of it was in malls. ↗

— Dolores Hayden

#personal-growth

If you own this story you get to write the ending. ↗

— Brené Brown

#personal-responsibility #self #story #taking-ownership #life

They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#hate #love #love