Virtues refer to the 6 core characteristics valued by philosophers and theologians across culture and time. Character strengths refer to the 24 positive personality ingredients of a fulfilling life, the pathways to the virtues.
“An important tool against self-doubt is just to ignore it. Forge ahead anyway. Just keep going, keep going, keep going.”
― Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
― Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
“I like to be busy,” she says. “And useful. I think those are pretty basic human desires—don’t you?”
― A Piece of the World
― A Piece of the World
“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and other life events that took up every spare moment of their time in case unpleasant thoughts intruded. But for Nina, whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book.”
― The Bookshop on the Corner
― The Bookshop on the Corner
“She stared into the distance and tried to think, honestly and properly, about her life: up here where it was clearer, and she could breathe, and she wasn’t surrounded by a million people in a great hurry dashing or grabbing or shouting or achieving things in their lives that they plastered all over Facebook and Instagram, making you feel inadequate.”
― The Bookshop on the Corner
― The Bookshop on the Corner
“فمن أحب من نظرة واحدة وأسرع العلاقة من لمحة خاطرة؛ فهو دليل على قلَّة الصبر، ومُخبرٌ بسرعة السلو، وشاهد الظرافة والملل، وهكذا في جميع الأشياء أسرعُها نموًّا أسرعها فناءً، وأبطؤها حدوثًا أبطؤها نفاذًا.”
― طوق الحمامة في الأُلفَةِ والأُلَّاف
― طوق الحمامة في الأُلفَةِ والأُلَّاف
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