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"Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else."
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"Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!"
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"The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style."
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"The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have."
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"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
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"Good men don't become legends," he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."
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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
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"Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering."
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"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."
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"Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known."
Experience
"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."
Work
"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
Creativity
"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come."
Faith
"I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect."
Art
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
Family
"We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love."
Love
"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
Truth
"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
Family
"With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me."
Life
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