“so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.”
“Is she always like this? No, usually worse.”
“She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.”
“I don t blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do. (...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things -and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.”
“Beauty isn t just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don t seem to notice.”
“Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.”
“So it seems as though this part of us that is living a life on Earth is only a small piece or splinter of a much larger us. That we are many rather than one, or rather pieces of a more complex whole. We are only able to focus on the splinter we perceive as our totality. That is a good thing, because if we were aware of the complexity of it we would not be able to function in this world or reality. We are only able to see the facade that masks a much larger picture. Only now are we being allowed to peek behind the veil.”
“Sometimes, you might find it impossible to change things outside yourself, but you must remember that life isn’t about what happens to you, it is more about how you react to it.”
“And I tremble from head to toe. And I look up at him and the wild look in his eye.”
“Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.”
“Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.”
“Yuvraj Singh is one of the best batsmen to watch in world cricket when he s in form. He is ego personified. Yuvraj doesn’t just hit the ball, he lets it rebound off his aura.”
“You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn t come off the way you thought it should come off.”
“Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs home: I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I m pretty sure I could make out, Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!”
“And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.”
“You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.”
“A good personality often reflects with high levels of consistency.”