I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.― Charlotte Brontë

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs

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We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

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Story = Character + Predicament + Attempted Extrication. - Jonathan Gottschall

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The way you make an omelet reveals your character. ― Anthony Bourdain

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NEVER let anything or anyone STEAL your joy. Those are open to love; we love who you are and just the way you are. We are humans who are not expected to be PERFECT. God made us just the way we are. Our being cannot be defined by how we look but by our character, knowing this to be the best we can be and knowing that we are uniquely created just the way we are. ― Dr. Nana

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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? -Alexis de Tocqueville

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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. - Edith Wharton

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There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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