“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
"I don’t know what I think until I write it down."
- Joan Didion
Self-awareness
"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
- Joan Didion
Self-awareness
"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."
- Joan Didion
Personal Growth
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."
- Joan Didion
Inspiration
"Grief when it comes, it is nothing like we expect it to be."
- Joan Didion
Adversity
"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."
- Beauty and the Beast
Integrity
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
- Baltasar Gracian
Integrity
"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."
- Hachiman Hikigaya
Integrity
"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."
- Gintoki Sakata
Integrity