Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
NovalisNovalis The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
NovalisNovalis Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
NovalisNovalis The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NovalisNovalis Nature is a petrified magic city.
NovalisNovalis The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
NovalisNovalis Play is experimenting with chance.
NovalisNovalis Character is a wish for a perfect education.
NovalisNovalis The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
NovalisNovalis Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
NovalisNovalis A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
NovalisNovalis We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
NovalisNovalis The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
NovalisNovalis Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NovalisNovalis Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
NovalisNovalis Character is perfectly educated will.
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
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War exposes the best and worst of those who are called to fight. I know of no man who lacked character in peace and then discovered his character in combat.
Major Dick WintersMajor Dick Winters I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
Norman SchwarzkopfNorman Schwarzkopf If you have character, that means the guy you are dealing with can trust you.
Major Dick WintersMajor Dick Winters There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau The men trust in you, have faith in you, and they obey, no questions asked. That’s character in a nutshell.
Major Dick WintersMajor Dick Winters Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman SchwarzkopfNorman Schwarzkopf Your judgement judges you and defines you.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.
Jack CanfieldJack Canfield