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Contentment is the grace of desiring little.
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Compassion is the soul
answering the pain
it cannot ignore.
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Ambition is the mind stirred by what it dares to imagine.
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Generosity is the measure of a heart unbound by possession.
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Integrity is what remains when all pretense falls away.
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Acceptance is the quiet strength of facing what is.
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Temptation is desire testing the strength of the will.
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Painting - Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel
Anger is the mind enslaved to what it cannot change.
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Forgiveness frees the heart
more than the offender.
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Knowledge grows where humility waters it.
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Curiosity is the mind’s gentle rebellion against the known.
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Pride is the self standing where it ought to bow.
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Humility is to stand small
before what is great.
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Justice is truth administered without favor or fear.
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Gratitude turns what is present into enough.
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Patience is the strength
to endure what
cannot be hastened.
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Fear is what the mind refuses to know.
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Change reveals
the persistence of
what cannot
remain the same.
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Truth is not discovered but remembered.
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Time does not pass;
it peels away
what pretends to last.
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Love is the recognition that
what is most eternal
cannot be possessed.
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Silence is not the lack of speech,
but the moment when truth refuses translation.
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Solitude is not the absence of others,
but the presence of what remains when they leave.
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Prudence is not measured by doubting oneself,
but by knowing when to stop doubting oneself.
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To fail well is to lose all but understanding.
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Wisdom is the slow victory of patience over impulse.
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To desire is to glimpse the infinite through the finite.
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Doubt is the mind
testing its own compass.
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Faith is trust held beyond proof.
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