The VIA Character Strengths Survey at https://viacharacter.com provides a free personal profile of 24 ranked character strengths in common with 2500 years of virtue catalogs across all world traditions and philosophies. Christopher Peterson, Martin Seligman. Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again… who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“The woman speaks, ‘Will my mouth always be like this’, she asks. ‘Yes, I say, it will. It’s because the nerve was cut.’ She nods in silence. But the young man smiles. ‘I like it,’ he says. ‘It’s kind of cute.’ And all at once I know who he is. And unaware of my presence, I lower my gaze, for one is not bold in an encounter with the gods. And then he bends to kiss her crooked mouth, and I so close I can see how he twists his own lips to accommodate hers to show her that their kiss still works. And I remember that the gods appeared in ancient Greece as mortals, and I hold my breath and let the wonder in.” —Richard Selzer – (The Kiss – Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery)