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“There are lots of poster children for angst. But there aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl. But what about the people who are really not feeling that great? Why can't I get up in front of millions of people, as a person who represents my generation, and tell them that I'm angry? Who puts these limits on what my personality should be in public?”

People Thinking Children Feelings Girl Personality Angst Posters Bad Girl

Author:Fiona Apple

“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”

Inspirational Children Character Friendship Changed Personality You Choose Real Friends New Friendship Getting Over You Choosing Friends

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.”

Children Parent Term Practice Environment Personality Genes Child Rearing Rearing A Child

Author:Steven Pinker

“The wildest colts make the best horses.”

Children Teaching Personality Horse Wild Horses Colts

Book:Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch

Source: Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch

“The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.”

Needs Children Persons Has Beens Desire Certain Personality Adults Sight Longing Favors Relate Civilized Persona Adapted Memories Dreams Reflections Unfulfilled Desires

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.”

Children Talent Personality Prodigies

Book:How to be Good

Source: How to be Good

“My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.”

Children Philosophy Personality Pet Flaws Having Children

Book:Homer's Odyssey

Source: Homer's Odyssey

“The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.”

Humans Children Self Hard Suffering Personality Demand Surrender Gods Will God Love Justify Reconcile Disdain Human Personality Hard Love

Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague