Grace is a flower that springs from the soul; it is the gift or favor that is done or received for which we feel gratitude. Grace is also the set of qualities that make a person pleasant, beyond their beauty, that is, their nobility. Plato says: Who is truly noble? One whom nature duly disposed for virtue.

In the Mandala of Emotions grace belongs to the family of virtues. Grace and sweetness are daughters of desire. When the desire is fulfilled, grace and sweetness are born.

The good exercise of virtue leads us to happiness, the bad exercise of virtue to the loss of happiness. This depends on the mode, the occasion and the duration of the emotion.

A single thought of gratitude towards heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gratitude is kind, that is, it invites you to love. Both for the one who expresses it and for the one who receives it, gratitude opens the door to share, to recognize and celebrate the value of what has been experienced and the presence of the other.

Gratitude is by far the most important "attitude" you can acquire, and the one that makes the most difference in your life.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Grace, even more beautiful than beauty.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Things done at the right time have a certain grace.

There is no duty more necessary than giving thanks.

Whoever gives thanks for what he receives, gives birth to a bountiful harvest.

Let us thank those who benefit us and benefit the grateful.

Successful people always say: thank you. He realizes that it is healthy to recognize a job well done.

There is no one who is not visited by fortune at some time in their life.

Each one is the architect of his own fortune.

Chance is always current; always have your hook cast. In the backwater where you least expect it, your fish will be.

Those who least seek it, sometimes have more luck.

Let time clarify the doubts. Fortune brings many pilotless ships to port.

No one's fortune has risen so high above others that they don't lack something.

The great fortunes that come unexpectedly, bring with them some suspicion.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Fortune favors the good heart.

Flawlessly do whatever you have to do right now, and leave the outcome up to the unknown.

The wise man has fullness. Even when something happens to him, he receives it without concern and reserves it, enjoying an immense, constant, intimate joy.

When you bow deeply to the universe, you receive bows.

The lucky day is like a harvest day; as soon as the wheat is ripe, it is necessary to hasten to harvest it.

Fortune plays in favor of a prepared mind.

The moderation of happy people is due to the placidity that good fortune gives to their temperament.

The last rung of adverse fortune is the first of prosperous.

If you feel gratitude and don't express it, it's like wrapping a gift and not giving it.

A proud person is rarely thankful, because he thinks he deserves everything.

I prefer the funny ones, not the funny ones.

Sometimes one confuses gratitude with love.

The gratitude of most men is due to a hidden desire to obtain greater benefits.

Gratitude for the good that we receive from the hands of someone seems to require resignation from us for the evils that come from the same hands.

Gratitude ennobles, ingratitude debases.

Benefit received, from a free man he becomes a captive.

All our discontent with what we lack comes from our lack of gratitude for what we have.

Mean thing is good luck. Its false resemblance to true merit deceives men.

Accusing others of our own misfortunes is a consequence of our ignorance.

There is no one who is not visited by fortune at some time in their life; but when she finds him unwilling to receive her, she goes in through the door and out through the window.

As much as Fortune raises, it raises it to overthrow it later.

Misfortunes are the tears of the soul.

Fortune gets tired of always carrying the same man on her back.

The most feared misfortunes are usually those that never come.

The unfortunate has no other medicine than hope.

A heart full of resentment and hatred is self-destructive, especially if others are blamed for our misfortunes.

Misfortunes come to men from only one thing: from not knowing how to be calm in their room.

Most people do not judge their peers except by their good or bad fortune.

We prefer to believe ourselves protected by an invisible power, than to see ourselves reduced to our own strength.

When you push your luck, you often end up being clumsy.

Fortunate people are little corrected: They believe they are always right while fortune sustains their misconduct.

The acquisition of wealth has been for many, not an end, but a mere exchange for their misfortunes.

Misfortunes, like fortune, only come when we have sought them with our actions.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices appear as light makes objects appear.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness.

Fortune drives mad, the very ones it favors.

The sentences of this article are distributed throughout the Oracle of the Soul.