{"quotes":[{"text":"Allow your natural personality to shine through without pretending to be someone you're not, or you may be stuck with that label forever.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["authenticity","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","personality-development","relationship","social-networking","trust"],"id":11646,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"Do not let other people invade your personality. Remember that every human being is a unique phenomenon, and worth developing. You will meet many who have no resources of their own, and who will try to fasten themselves upon you. You will find others eager to tell you what to do and think and be. But it is better to go apart and learn to be yourself.","author":"Upton Sinclair","tags":["be-yourself","being-human","other-people-s-opinions","personality-development"],"id":18837,"author_id":"Upton+Sinclair"},{"text":"Do you really want people to like you for something that you’re not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["authenticity","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","motivational-speaker","personality-development","relationship","social-networking","susan-young","trust"],"id":35398,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to contribute.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["authenticity","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","personality-development","relationship","social-networking","trust"],"id":46266,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["authenticity","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","motivational-speaker","personality-development","relationship","social-networking","susan-young","trust"],"id":57122,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy of the collaborative mind and body, pull our tissue apart like taffy, and expose the composition of our life sustaining organs. Telling our personal story forces us to account for any actions that made us laugh, cry, scream and shout, or hide behind a cloak of mootness. Critical examination of the self allows one to disintegrate the envelope of their present personality and make up a new imaging.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["change-your-life","identity","knowing-oneself","knowledge-of-self","memoir","memoir-writing","personal-essays","personality","personality-development","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-discovery","transformation","transformation","writers","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing"],"id":106691,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["authenticity","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","personality-development","relationship","social-networking","trust"],"id":107282,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"The challenge of being authentic for people pleasers is that we really want people to like and accept us. Being vulnerable, however, requires that we come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like us, and that it is okay. Not everyone needs to like us.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["authenticity","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","motivational-speaker","personality-development","relationship","social-networking","susan-young","trust"],"id":122322,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"A person archives self-realization by engaging in deliberate contemplative acts that serve to unify of all aspects of the self. To deny part of the self, a person risks spiritual decay.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["personality-development","self-acceptance","self-acceptance","self-realization","self-realization"],"id":126915,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.","author":"Philip Hoare","tags":["personality-development","self"],"id":145374,"author_id":"Philip+Hoare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}