#character

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important. ↗

— Alan Sakowitz

#character #community #family #financial-thriller #inspirational

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#dreams #touchstones #dreams

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. ↗

— Anonymous

#forgiveness #love #forgiveness

The latter. She had a good run," Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life. ↗

— Lisa Lutz

#humor #way-with-words #death

How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it... ↗

— Alexander Shulgin

#character #drugs #shulgin #change

Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash. another from the world of tweets ↗

— Robin Glasser

#characters #writing-advice

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true. ↗

— Robert Frost

#character #truth #change

All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater. ↗

— Émile Zola

#sexuality #woman-s-character #love

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice. ↗

— Victor LaValle

#inspirational #narrative-perspective #plot #voice #inspirational

That's it. Love makes us all strong. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#inspirational-love #love #strength #strength-of-character #strength-of-spirit