0200-UnderstandingMyself

Understanding Myself

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off."

- A. R. Ammons



"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

- Desmond Tutu



"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."

- Albert Camus



"We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from."

- Penelope Lively



"We all need a firm sense of identity."

- Christopher Eccleston



"Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that."

- Julie Delpy



"To love is to be vulnerable. "

- Philip Yancey



"The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior."

- Maxwell Maltz



"Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity."

- Tina Fey



"Self-love is the source of all our other loves."

- Pierre Corneille



"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless."

- Paul Harris



"Our partner is essential to the discovery of our own calling, and in a curious way shows us what we want, or more exactly, shows us what is wanted of us from within ourselves and our world. "

- Thomas Moore



"My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters."

- Michelle Obama



"My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace."

- Maureen O'Hara



"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"

- Jeff Foxworthy



"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

- Charles Horton Cooley



"I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody."

- Chris Evert



"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."

- Sidney Poitier



"I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV."

- George Lopez



"I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."

- Rodney Dangerfield



"I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are."

- Richard Branson



"Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth."

- Alan Rudolph



"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."

- Thomas Traherne



"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act."

- Jack Welch



"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."

- Virginia Satir



"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance."

- Paul Tournier



"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."

- Buddy Hackett



"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

- James Baldwin



"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee



"A happy marriage is based on discovery. For each delights in the differences in the other-and goes on learning all life long."

- Pam Brown



"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals."

- Pearl Buck



" Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

- Jean Anouilh

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