1,479 Quotes About Personality

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.

There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.

The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and unconfined—in which he transcended his own personality and became one with everything he perceived.

This isn’t a duality. I’m not one of the Balfour Academy soldiers, drinking a potion to become virile, ugly, and monstrously strong. There isn’t a lever inside me that determines which of me you’re talking to at once. A knife can cut or stab. The label doesn’t change. It’s still a knife.

...your personality is the only permanent thing in your, ultimately, temporary life...that's all the more reason to cherish it...

A library is never -- for lovers of the written word -- simply a place for conserving or storing books but rather a sort of living creature with a personality and even moods which we should understand and learn to live with.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

I knew I’d be troubled, but who knew awhile meant forever?

She looked at him for a long moment. "There really is more substance to you than you let on, isn't there?£