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"Have no fear for the unsettlement or the disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It began in eternity, it will go on through everlasting; there is no panic in the divine personality. God is peace, God gives peace, God gives rest."
"Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss."
"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."
"Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies."
"Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs."
"I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity."
"Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible."
"We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate."
"You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love."
"No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality."
"Art is the escape from personality."
"It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry."
"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
"The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind."
"I'm not an actress, I'm a personality."
"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
"I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes."
"What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not."
"I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me."
"Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects."
