#hara

The second gift is Beauty. May your deeds reflect its depth. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#blessing #character-building #inner-beauty #inspiration #beauty

Sometimes you have to look past a person’s mistakes to see God’s presence. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #character #judgements #soul #spirit

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

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#god #morocco #sahara #sahara-desert #spiritual

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told. ↗

— Robert McKee

#courage #creativity #passion #story #storytelling

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

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. ↗

— Richard Bach

#character #dream #dreams

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#characteristics #completely #cut #dream #friends

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#credit #leadership #responsibility #subordinates #leadership

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#leadership #talent #leadership