Likeableness Quotes & Sayings

The best ingredients for likeableness are a happy expression of countenance, an unaffected manner, and a sympathetic attitude. — Emily Post

We don't need people who can spit back facts. We've got Google. — Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated. — Jimmy Armfield

You just had to know where to look. — Sarah Dessen

You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty. — Debasish Mridha

This was the best time of the day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go. — Sylvia Plath

Just as God, above all, is free of every need and self-interest, the spiritual man who has the Spirit struggles and becomes perfected in the love according to Christ, love that is delivered of all need and self-interest. — John Romanides

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don't even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, "What are you trying to teach me?" Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
From Everything Belongs, p. 143 — Richard Rohr

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed. — Thomas Sowell

She didn't brighten the whole room for me when she walked in the door. She didn't make my whole day better just by smiling at me, or make me ask myself what she would think of me when I said or did something shitty to somebody. She wasn't the one who made me want to get off my ass and do more, be a better person. Only you've ever done that, sunshine. — Cherrie Lynn

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. — Groucho Marx

The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it. To avoid missing that moment, I recommend that you keep your collection small. — Marie Kondo

Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear. — Michael Crichton

(Perpetual leaves are, as we know, made of plastic, and there may come a time when surgeons will be able to replace all our organs with plastic substitutes, so that you will achieve immortality by becoming a plastic model of yourself.) — Alan W. Watts

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music. — Gilbert Highet

It is better to be a failed happy person than to be a successful underachiever. — Laksh Kishore