“I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.” SelfMy OwnVirtueGraceBearsMiracleSacredAffectionWitnessLiftsTendernessEmergenceSanctifyImprobability Author:Ursula Goodenough
“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.” KnowsWorldYearsMindHumansHas BeensMomentsLastsLife IsSpiritCertainEnergyGivenCausesMy OwnVirtueIgnoranceRegretConsciousNobleLiberationUselessHuman MindDedicatedInertiaTimidityPrecious GiftsNoble Causes Author:Maya Angelou
“I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.” IfsLastsGivenMy OwnPovertyVirtueHonestPraiseWingsFortuneShakesRefuge Author:Horace
“I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.” IfsFirstsMadeEyeMy OwnPleasureVirtueWifeSeasonsPropertyVanitySexismSubmitDivorced Book:The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes
“Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.” IfsMadeSoulJesusChristMy OwnVirtueMinesConsciousJesus ChristWitConquerFragmentsDomain Book:Select Essays and Poems Source: Select Essays and Poems
“I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.” KnowsWould BeMy OwnVirtueCleanSakeVirtuous Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.” WholeNaturalMy OwnPracticeCasesVirtueWhole LifeHabitualRight Conduct Author:Sallust