“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.” PeopleWayGivingAblePurposeOrderCultureUnderstandingGrowthAttitudeTroubleDesignPersonalityEgoGiving UpConsciousPlanningUrgesRootedUtilitarianInner Growth Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!” ThinkingMenGivingRealPayPersonalityGiving UpRichnessHappily Ever AfterEver AfterLiving Happily Ever AfterLiving Happily Author:Lynda Barry
“There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.” WantGivingMayHardDifferencesFiguresPersonalityGiving UpElementsAnxietyAspectForesightEmpatheticPathologyI May Not Be Author:Scott Stossel
“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.” GivingPoetryCertainLiteratureLanguageVirtueEffectsPoetPersonalityGiving UpOrdinaryCurrentsLocalsUncertaintyNonsenseCropsCritiqueColorfulJuxtapositionClose Calls Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
“Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.” GivingCoursesRealizingHurtTeachDangerPersonalityGiving UpThreatSaintShipsReputationTallCrewThreateningBountyLarger Than LifeCargoJust Give UpGot Hurt Author:Ray Stevenson
“What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. I don't like giving up on things and I believe in my band and I just happen to have the sort of personality that really likes to see things to the bitter end. The second reason is the incredible people I've been fortunate to meet as a result of pursuing this insane, money-hemorrhaging enterprise. Literally every time I release a well-reviewed, poor-selling record, the net result is that I end up meeting more kind, like-minded, creative and brilliant people. That's really all the reward I need.” PeopleGivingBelieveKindReasonI BelieveCreativePersonalityGiving UpMeetingsIncrediblesBrilliantInsaneBitterEnterprisePersistent Author:Eddie Pepitone
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.” PeopleGivingFirstsMadeDifferentRealReligionTurnsChristMy OwnPersonalityGiving UpNew BeginningsDifferent Peoples Author:C. S. Lewis