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  1. Robert Greene _ Mastery

    The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways. Some people have dark qualities that are especially pronounced. You cannot change such people at their core, but must merely avoid becoming their victim. You are an observer of the human comedy, and by being as tolerant as possible, you gain a much greater ability to understand people and to influence their behavior when necessary
    book-quotepersonalityhuman-nature

  2. Robert M. Sapolsky _ Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

    Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. {Marathon runners are exceptions to this.}
    book-quotepersonality

  3. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.
    book-quotelifepersonality

  4. Gretchen Rubin _ The Four Tendencies: The

    The harder the push, the greater the Rebel push-back. I laughed when a Rebel friend told me, 'No one can tell me to do anything. I recently got an email saying "Please read" in the subject line, and I immediately deleted it.
    book-quotepersonalityrebelrebellion

  5. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.
    book-quotehappinesspersonalitypreferences

  6. Robert A. Heinlein _ Stranger in a Strange Land

    Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes - make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.
    book-quotehumansocietygod

  7. Charlotte Brontë _ Villette

    Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good.
    book-quotepeoplenaturepersonality

  8. Julia Quinn _ Because of Miss Bridgerton

    I should thank you'', she said.His lips stilled, and she felt him smile against his skin. ''For what?''''Everything, really. But mostly for being you
    book-quotelovepersonality

  9. Julia Quinn _ Romancing Mister Bridgerton:

    She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.It hurts, because deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often very funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.
    book-quotepersonalityself-esteem

  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gentle Spirit

    Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all
    book-quotehappinesspersonalitypride

  11. James Baldwin _ Notes of a Native Son

    We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become
    book-quotepersonalitypsychoanalysis

  12. James Baldwin _ Notes of a Native Son

    I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all."
    book-quotelifehistorysoul
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