“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsSometimesCertainTeacherChildhoodThis WorldPersonalityDegreesEnlightenmentDifficultyStructureLifetimeEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.” PlayCharacterUseChildhoodPersonalityAdultsMatureAffected Author:Neil Simon
“Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.” MindChildrenAgeSpiritMotherCertainEmotionEducationChildhoodPersonalityDevilSensibilityProvokingInfantDeformityMoustache Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
“We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.” PastChildhoodPersonalityTasksUnfortunateCultivation Author:Ivan Turgenev
“If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.” IfsInspirationalAgeChildhoodMiddlePersonalityDiscoveryEssenceSurpriseDevelopingIntrigueMiddle AgesGatewaysExhilaration Author:Erik Erikson
“At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.” HumansChildhoodPersonalityPeriodsExcitingHuman LifeFascinatingAdulthood Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.” PastIssuesChildhoodPersonalityRootsInsecurityStrongholds Author:Beth Moore
“I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.” SchoolChildhoodPersonalitySpiralsDownward Spiral Author:Marcus Brigstocke