1. Fortitude 🛡
Ancient Meaning: Endurance through adversity, fear, or pain.
Plain Phrase: How many times you get back up after being knocked down.
Modern Phrase: “The quiet decision to keep going when no one’s watching.”
2. Temperance 🌗
Ancient Meaning: Balanced restraint; self-control in all things.
Plain Phrase: Knowing when enough is enough — and having the grace to stop.
Modern Phrase: “Choosing peace over the extra click, bite, or jab.”
3. Justice ⚖
Ancient Meaning: Giving each person what they are due, fairly and honorably.
Plain Phrase: Standing up for others even when no one claps.
Modern Phrase: “Doing right, not for credit, but because it’s right.”
7. Charity (Love) ❤️
Ancient Meaning: The highest, most selfless love; active kindness toward all.
Plain Phrase: Loving without condition or transaction.
Modern Phrase: “Showing up for someone else, even when no one sees.”
12. Humility 🌱
Meaning: The strength to not need to be above others.
Plain Phrase: Knowing your worth without shouting it.
Modern Phrase: “Standing low enough to lift someone else.”
13. Curiosity 🔍
Meaning: Sacred wonder; the will to understand before judging.
Plain Phrase: Asking before assuming.
Modern Phrase: “Staying open — even when you think you know.”
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11. Forgiveness 🔄
Meaning: Releasing others — and yourself — from the prison of past wounds.
Plain Phrase: Letting go of what no longer serves.
Modern Phrase: “Healing the chain, link by link.”
15. Truthfulness 📖
Meaning: Speaking and living in alignment with what is real.
Plain Phrase: Saying what is, with courage and care.
Modern Phrase: “Telling the truth — even when it's inconvenient.”
8. Compassion 🤲
Meaning: Deep empathy turned into action; kindness with courage.
Plain Phrase: Feeling with others, not just for them.
Modern Phrase: “Letting someone else's pain touch your hands, not just your heart.”
9. Dignity 🕊
Meaning: Honoring the innate worth of every being.
Plain Phrase: Holding space for others to stand tall.
Modern Phrase: “Seeing the person, not just their problems.”
4. Prudence 🧠
Ancient Meaning: Right reason in action; thoughtful decisions guided by wisdom.
Plain Phrase: Wisdom in motion.
Modern Phrase: “Knowing when to wait, speak, or walk away.”
5. Faith ✨
Ancient Meaning: Trust in what we cannot see, anchoring the soul in purpose.
Plain Phrase: The bridge between doubt and devotion.
Modern Phrase: “Trusting the path even when the next step is invisible.”
6. Hope 🌄
Ancient Meaning: Confident expectation of goodness — not fantasy, but anchored light.
Plain Phrase: Looking toward the light, even in the shadow.
Modern Phrase: “Choosing to believe there’s still a way forward.”
10. Presence ✨
Meaning: Full attention, anchored in now — sacred awareness of self and other.
Plain Phrase: Being here, fully, with open eyes.
Modern Phrase: “Choosing to witness, not escape.”
14. Stewardship 🌍
Meaning: Caring for what you’ve been given — the Earth, people, stories.
Plain Phrase: Protecting what matters, not because it's yours — but because it's ours.
Modern Phrase: “Living like someone else has to inherit your choices.”