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“Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them.” George Andrews

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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” Khalil Gibran

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“Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes - they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvelous or you’re boring, regardless of your age.” Steven Morrissey

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“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.” Erich Fromm

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“Psychedelic drugs don’t change you - they don’t change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can’t impose it.” Alexander Shulgin

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“Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.” Democritus

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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller

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“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.” Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.” Abigail Van Buren

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“Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.” Helen Gahagan Douglas

“It has always seemed strange to me … the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” John Steinbeck

“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.” Tennessee Williams

“My worst trait is probably indecision. Probably. Maybe.” Julian Barratt

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“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalised learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality, and real human needs.” Arthur Evans