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One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
- Buddha

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha

Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching

BOOK: Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu, Translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English – The Tao Te Ching, which can be translated as “The Book of the Way and its Virtue,” is the Chinese classic text attributed to Lao Tsu (or Lao Tzu). Although it may seem very abstract, Taoism is actually quite practical.

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