#personal

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#behind #believe #best #capable #foot

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction. ↗

— James McGreevey

#approached #been #blend #caution #decades

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#boundaries #broken #destroyed #dogma #down

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. ↗

— John McHugh

#between #connection #far #fewer #fewer people

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#coming #done #even #ever #hadn

My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue. ↗

— Heather Mills

#continue #going #lies #personal #until

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up. ↗

— George H. Mead

#good #goods #interested #must #not interested

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. ↗

— George H. Mead

#multiple #normal #personality #sense

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. ↗