"Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is."

-- Sheldon B. Kopp

#Knowing Who You Are Quotes #Personality Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.”
“I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.”
“Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.”
“Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.290
“Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.”
“I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.”
“What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.”

Source : Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.
“My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.”

Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.63, Random House

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