PERSONALITY

We were born individuals, and this individuality came, as we grew, to express itself  in selfhood.Indeed some men seem scarcely able to attain personality, like those who, Dante says, lived and never were alive. Starting from the basis of individuality and selfhood, personality is a growth, and even so, not an automatic growth. It is an attainment. 
God made children and they cannot sit still. They were meant to move, to be active, for so they must grow and learn. If they did not they would never be even teachable. This activity, of course, will not be undirected. The child does not consciously direct it, but just as each animal develops according to its species, and is modified more or less by its surroundings, so will it be with the activities of the growing child. These factors we must accept and make the best use of. What is no less important and inevitable is the tendency to seek conscious ends or ideals definitely. IT IS OUR IDEALS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT MAKE OUR PERSONALITY.