“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”

“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”

“But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone.”

“For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it was ours.”

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”