“[...] należała jednak do tych kobiet, które łączą w sobie zdrową urodę z histeryczną łzawliwością, wybuchy liryczne z bardzo praktycznym, banalnym myśleniem, podły charakter z sentymentalizmem, ospałą bierność z trzeźwą umiejętnością wysyłania bliźnich na poszukiwanie wiatru w polu.”
Source: Pnin
“Nicio viata nu e stricata cu exceptia celei care este oprita. Daca vrei sa strici caracterul cuiva nu trebuie decat sa il reformezi”
Source: Dorian Gray
“A fi bun inseamna a fi in armonie cu tine insuti. Disonanta inseamna a fi in armonie cu altii”
“His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.”
Source: Corcitura
“When someone tries to pull you into the mud, remember that they have to get dirty just to reach you; stay on the high ground and let the rain wash them away.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“If you only do the work when someone is watching, you aren't a professional; you're just an actor playing a part.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“I'm going to give you the same advice I give all young authors I mentor. You can't protect your characters.”
Source: The Ghostwriter
“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“Physical engagement is not simply physical contact but the experience of the world through the manifold sensibility of the body. That sensibility is sharpened and strengthened in skill. Skill is intensive and refined world engagement. Skill, in turn, is bound up with social engagement. It molds the person and gives the person character.”
Source: Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry
“I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I don't don't know why know why,
I simply know that I I I
am am inclined to say to say
a lot a lot this way this way-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
My mom my mom gets mad gets mad,
it irritates my dad my dad,
it drives them up a tree a tree,
that's what they tell they tell me me-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
It gets me in a jam a jam,
but that's the way I am I am,
in fact I think it's neat it's neat
to to to to repeat repeat-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.”
Source: A Pizza the Size of the Sun