#hara

I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart. ↗

— Julia Hall

#heartbreak #love #on-fiction #love

The world loves talent but pays off on character. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#talent #love

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#character #every #great #great need #lead

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#suffering #testing #love

It's not a romance, it's a love story. ↗

— Sadie Jones

#characters #love #romance #love

He was all of those things, of course, but none of those things. ↗

— Marie Tillman

#love

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. ↗

— Janet Goodfriend

#best #book-club #cape-cod #character #community

He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must make his whole world in a single, coherent gesture, as a potter makes a pot... ↗

— John Gardner

#plot #setting #story #writer #writing

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#character-building #emotions #intellect #music #poetry

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #confidence #courage #individuality #inspiration