character

Bismillah..

a brief moment please

for this nature's marine contender

this little one was scurrying away as we strolled down the beach

yet when it saw us, it stopped

upon reaching him,

his claws down, wary

tried to nudge it with a shell and what grip he had!

another shell, and he made an amusing picture

like a samurai with two swords

first nudge, his two legs wouldn't budge

another, the other pair

another, the last pair

what stance he had!

like a warrior ready for war

how I wished I brought a camera then

*snap*

mental picture

f & me made a little bow

"respect"

why?

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

Joseph Le Conte

what makes a character?

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

John C. Geikie

Reputation is what men and women think of us; 

character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

How to build that (good, strong character):

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude. 

Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world." 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, 

than to tolerate them.

J. Petit Senn

(LOVE this!)

Sow an act, 

and you reap a habit; 

sow a habit, 

and you reap a character; 

sow a character, 

and you reap a destiny.

George Dana Boardman

Character is, for the most part,

simply habit become fixed. 

C. H. Parkhurst

Point taken, Gentlemen~

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