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Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.

I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.