#character

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#heart #life #life

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly. ↗

— Plato

#character #self-exploration #beauty

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#character #deep #fact #life #love

people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character ↗

— Chad Kultgen

#character #people #change

Times will change for the better when you change. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#motivational #work #worry #change

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything. ↗

— Beverly Donofrio

#life-lessons #strength-character #struggle #tragedy #triumph

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change. TOUGH CUSTOMER Chapter 14, page 185 ↗

— Sandra Brown

#change

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#character #change

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#character #values #change

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#change #character #jealousy #nature #transformation