The Book of Qualities

This is a replacement for a copy purchased years ago. It’s a lovely, creative whimsical book that provides insight if you are able to receive it!

This is one of my all time favorite books. It helped me understand different feelings by personifying them when I was just 18. After years of trauma I didn’t know how to name my feelings. This is a wonderful book for anyone working on secure adult attachment. Her writings are whimsical and kind of magical. I have given this as gifts for years!

I have had this tiny little book for 20 years. I treasure it as one of the greatest books filled with a cutting wisdom that reminds me of the simple and profound truths of God's Wisdom. Not written in religious tones, but carrying such deep spiritual healing wisdoms. Big Truths are simple, and we humans do seem to have an addiction to complicating life, and creating chaos when quiet reflection would reveal the simple nature of truths so well revealed in "The Book of Qualities". It has a centering quality about it, making one go, "Ah yes, that's the truth of it".....after reading a one page passage on anything from "COURAGE" to"GREED", to "AMBIVILENCE", to "GUILT", to "POWER" and too many more to list here. Give yourself one of the greatest books you will ever own. I expect that you will put it in a special place,easily accessible, and always quitely waiting for that moment when you might need to remember what "truly matters" about being human in this life we create. As soon as I post this review I am heading straight to Amazon again, and purchasing 2 more copies to keep tucked away as I have worn the pages of this wonderful little book over 20 years of re-reading it.

I never would have found this book if a library friend hadn’t sent me snippets. After she passed away I went looking for this book and it is truly wonderful!! Short stories about aspects of personality or traits of character as if they were people. Very well written, truly a gem!

Book arrived in good condition and when promised. Couldn’t ask for more.

Great way to review your inner self

This is an "oldie but goodie" for me. I first read Janet Ruth Gendler's book several decades ago, and ordered this as a gift for a young friend who loves both art and poetry. Gendler's "Qualities" aren't poems in the formal sense, but rather her reflections on the various qualities that make up the mosaics of our lives. It's still good!

I keep buying it either as a gift, or to replace my personal copy I've gifted.

I have them all!

Happy to have found this book. Great condition.

amusing and thought-provoking, a thoroughly good read. A lot of inspiration here for writers of all kinds. I didn;t feel the illustrations add much, but that's a minor quibble.

Love the descriptive prose

An eye opener. I was familiar with the middot in our Mussar tradition, but this shed an interesting additional light on our feelings/emotions/character traits.