Characterological Quotes

#1. When different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#2. The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.

Marianne Williamson

#3. Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

Plotinus

#4. It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst

#5. Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.

Gisele Bundchen

#6. Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

Samuel Johnson

#7. For me, light is the signal in the transaction. It's not being in the light, it's being there before it arrives. #bestallnighterever

Toni Morrison