{"quotes":[{"text":"When I was a child, I thought,Casually, that solitudeNever needed to be sought.Something everybody had,Like nakedness, it lay at hand,Not specially right or specially wrong,A plentiful and obvious thingNot at all hard to understand.Then, after twenty, it becameAt once more difficult to getAnd more desired -- though all the sameMore undesirable; for whatYou are alone has, to achieveThe rank of fact, to be expressedIn terms of others, or it's justA compensating make-believe.Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighbours need whole parishfulsOf 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 outsideUshers in evening rain. Once moreUncontradicting solitudeSupports me on its giant palm;And like a sea-anemoneOr simple snail, there cautiouslyUnfolds, emerges, what. ","author":"Philip Larkin","tags":["company","solitude","virtues"],"id":7268,"author_id":"Philip+Larkin"},{"text":"The Man of Power is one who presides—By persuasion. He uses no demeaning words or behavior, does not manipulate others, appeals to the best in everyone, and respects the dignity andagency of all humankind—men, women, boys, and girls.By long-suffering. He waits when necessary and listens to the humblest or youngest person. He is tolerant of the ideas of others and avoids quick judgments and anger. By gentleness. He uses a smile more often than a frown. He is not gruff or loud or frightening; he does not discipline in anger.By meekness. He is not puffed up, does not dominate conversations, and is willing to conform his will to the will of God.By love unfeigned. He does not pretend. He is sincere, giving honest love without reservation even when others are unlovable.By kindness. He practices courtesy and thoughtfulness in little things as well as in the more obvious things. By pure knowledge. He avoids half-truths and seeks to be empathetic. Without hypocrisy. He practices the principles he teaches. He knows he is not always right and is willing to admit his mistakes and say ‘I’m sorry.'Without guile. He is not sly or crafty in his dealings with others, but is honest and authentic when describing his feelings.","author":"H. Burke Peterson","tags":["honesty","love","patience","qualities","virtues"],"id":12966,"author_id":"H.+Burke+Peterson"},{"text":"I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension. Do you want me? I am yours.","author":"Mark Andrew Poe","tags":["god","harry-moon","love","motherhood","rabbit","tweens","values","virtues"],"id":23715,"author_id":"Mark+Andrew+Poe"},{"text":"Th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["atheism","death","faith","life","patience","religion","virtues"],"id":23937,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["exception","rule","virtue","virtues"],"id":33236,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.","author":"T.H. White","tags":["good-and-evil","meaninglessness","the-absurd","virtues"],"id":33659,"author_id":"T.H.+White"},{"text":"Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["almighty","humbleness","illumination","love","seeking","simplicity","supremacy","virtues"],"id":34330,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["nation","possess","truly","virtues","wealth","wealthy"],"id":40267,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"It is virtues that make a man not prosperity.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["man","prosperity","virtue","virtues"],"id":40719,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["cruel","cruel-world","cruelty","kindness","kindness","kindness","unsafe","virtue","virtue","virtues","wisdom","wisdom","world"],"id":43176,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":124,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}