Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Character Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

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Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Fate Quotes

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

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Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

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Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

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I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Passion Quotes , Character Quotes

The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.

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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

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But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

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