Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.
Veronica RothTag: virtues
The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Bahá'u'lláhTag: love unity virtues religious bahá-í
[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.
Edward AbbeyTag: writers virtues duty critics-of-society
Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.
Susan AndersenWhen virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.
Judith MartinTag: self-esteem criticism virtues praise
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
Doreen ValienteThe scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
ConfuciusTag: virtues value loyalty precious-things treasures good-faith
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed. – p. 52
Ray ATag: emotions virtues character-defects
Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
Benvenuto CelliniWhen I was a child, I thought,
Casually, that solitude
Never needed to be sought.
Something everybody had,
Like nakedness, it lay at hand,
Not specially right or specially wrong,
A plentiful and obvious thing
Not at all hard to understand.
Then, after twenty, it became
At once more difficult to get
And more desired -- though all the same
More undesirable; for what
You are alone has, to achieve
The rank of fact, to be expressed
In terms of others, or it's just
A compensating make-believe.
Much better stay in company!
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on -- in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.
Viciously, then, I lock my door.
The gas-fire breathes. The wind outside
Ushers in evening rain. Once more
Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am."
(Best Company)
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