Bearing fruit Quote by Lakshmi Holmstrom

“Persistence is the virtue by which all other virtues bear fruit.”

— Arturo Graf

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

— Aristotle

“Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you apply that…

— Maude (Harold & Maude

“Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish eating it nor ever digest…

— Flannery O'Connor

“There are innumerable paths one may choose in this life- some that, at first, appear flawed. Yet, if lived with love and honesty, they…

— Jennifer DeLucy

“When you take the high road to living a virtuous life, you are fortified by knowing that regardless of what life throws your way…

— Susan C. Young

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Such is the end of the evil-doer: the death of a sinner always reflects his life.”

— Jo Nesbø

“As for life therefore, and death, honour and dishonour, labour and pleasure, riches and poverty, all these things happen unto men indeed, both good…

— Marcus Aurelius

“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”

— Tom Robbins

“Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind.”

— Marcel Proust

“When life seems so futile, as it often does And the years both behind and ahead Weigh down with heavy judgment On what could…

— Sorcha Fraser