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Virtues - Be Admired - Live A Good Life: So, What Are They?

Virtues are strengths that allow people to live good lives. They include being generous with time and possessions, exhibiting goodness and honesty, and treating others fairly. Having virtues means living a giving life where one helps and supports others as well as oneself. Living virtuously provides non-material rewards and allows one to contribute to the common good rather than just act selfishly.

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Virtues - Be Admired - Live A Good Life: So, What Are They?

Virtues are strengths that allow people to live good lives. They include being generous with time and possessions, exhibiting goodness and honesty, and treating others fairly. Having virtues means living a giving life where one helps and supports others as well as oneself. Living virtuously provides non-material rewards and allows one to contribute to the common good rather than just act selfishly.

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Virtues Be Admired Live A Good Life

Virtues are the hidden strengths we have in life. To describe someone with virtue is someone with strengths, who is good and excellent. Something to be admired. We all have some, just we may not see them as such or recognize the power they have or we have in so having them.

So, what are they?


n other pages ! have tal"ed about talents. ! have tal"ed about values. #oth are of much use in our life, yet we may not have realized the fact or used such different terms or words to describe them. Virtues come into this category, too. $aybe a virtue is a long forgotten term, but it has its own strength and presence. To say someone is of good virtue means that they are generally a good, honorable, giving type of person. They may be generous of themselves or their time, as well as generous of their possessions or money or exhibit innate goodness, good to be around, of open heart and friendly honest and exhibit an openness in their affairs% they can be trusted and exhibit a certain grace, which comes from their being in harmony with their life and the life they lead honorable, and treat others fairly in word or deed, and also loo" after themselves in the same manner courageous and show valor, not in winning a fight, but in their daily actions striving for excellence, and their honest to life approach allows them to achieve this

Something for me to emulate then?


&ertainly. To be a person of good virtue does mean living a good life. 'iving as well as ta"ing. Sharing as well as using. (oo"ing out for others as well as loo"ing after themselves. Trying to act for the common good rather than just for selfish reasons. That all sounds a bit nebulous to me )nd so it may. *et, is it not our right to live a good and wholesome life. ) life where we help others as well as supporting ourselves we participate as well as ta"e part we share as well as act we contribute as well as belong

) life full of riches, yet one which may or may not have that much worldly wealth. +or life has its own rewards. !ts own rewards for those who travel life,s paths helping and assisting, improving and developing, offering assistance as well as teaching, a life full of joy and satisfaction

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