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No.
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A person is the sum of all their parts. If you changed one thing, physical or not, you'd be a different person.
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If I weren't so physically ugly I'd probably have a more outgoing personality, but since I was born the way I am (unfortunately) I'm more quiet and unwilling to speak out. Would you, if you looked like a transvestite?
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This is an excerpt from my favourite advice columnist, Cary Tennis. He responded to a woman in her forties who had wrote about the sorrow of losing her beauty: "Most of us are only really lovely for a few short years in childhood. But not so for the beautiful. In the day-to-day world, where most of us lose so much of ourselves and are granted so little in the way of courtesy and love, the pretty person absorbs love out of the air, off the street, in the stores....absorbs love like a child... faces light up every time she enters the room...
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This is an excerpt from my favourite advice columnist, Cary Tennis. He responded to a woman in her forties who had wrote about the sorrow of losing her beauty: "Most of us are only really lovely for a few short years in childhood. But not so for the beautiful. In the day-to-day world, where most of us lose so much of ourselves and are granted so little in the way of courtesy and love, the pretty person absorbs love out of the air, off the street, in the stores....absorbs love like a child... faces light up every time she enters the room...
It is not vanity, I don’t think, but the lucky satisfaction of a natural need to be loved on contact, just as who we are, just because we are there. To whom does this happen otherwise than the beautiful? Only to children! Only a child can walk into a room and find herself a delight to all, having done nothing, having prepared no performance or recited no lines, just because she is who she is, we turn to her with delight and love.
But of course for most of us this period of automatic love and warmth is very short. We soon find that we are mostly a nuisance, and have to work for every smile of praise. But the beautiful? Go to buy a cup of coffee, walk down the street, sit on an airplane...you receive a constant hidden dividend of high esteem."
So, to answer your question--Yes. How we look affects the way the environment responds to us, which in turn informs our personality.
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..yes. if i'd been the first string quarterback in high school, things would've very likely been different...probly wouldn't have been the class clown.
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I think how one looks is inextricably linked to one's personality.
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I think how one looks is inextricably linked to one's personality.
You learn how to get along in life based in large part on how others treat you. Our culture places a huge emphasis on external beauty. It is a struggle to learn how to cultivate inner beauty in such a climate--ugly, beautiful, or somewhere in-between.
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Working out releases chemicals in your brain that surely do something to your overall mood. If I were in a huge body... dripping with obesity... I might just roll off a cliff.
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Pretty surely, but it's hard to do controlled experiments to test out exactly how...
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This is a really good question. I think it depends on the person. I like to think that I'm very comfortable with being myself. But if I were a girl, I'm sure I would act differently. I'm a teenager, and teenage girls have different pressures than teenage boys do. So, I think that my personality would be the same, but different parts of it might be more prominent. Does that make any sense?
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This is a really good question. I think it depends on the person. I like to think that I'm very comfortable with being myself. But if I were a girl, I'm sure I would act differently. I'm a teenager, and teenage girls have different pressures than teenage boys do. So, I think that my personality would be the same, but different parts of it might be more prominent. Does that make any sense?
I would be different because I would be treated different by others. They would bring out parts of my personality that I don't use as often now. I think that makes a little more sense.
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Yes! If I were model-handsome, people would have treated me differently and I would have turned out differently.
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Your appearance affects how other people treat you, which can affect your personality if you let it...
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I don't think I would be me without my curly hair, it's definately suits me. My 5'1" frame is a part of me too. I always wanted to be taller when I was younger but now I can't picture myself being any taller.
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I would say my personality affects my body.
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I would say my personality affects my body.
I love real good food so I tend to eat healthy
I am a happy person that smile a lot so I always look great
I love hard work so I don't walk like I've been slouched in front of a computer all day
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