One of the most attractive qualities is restraint.

I especially like it in art.

It’s the ability to edit.

I don’t personally adhere to it, but I love it.

Restraint is so profound because it’s a sort of humility.

It’s fully having the ability to do more, but having the consciousness to do less.

And the awareness of the gap between what a person could do and what he actually does is beautiful.

Restraint’s beauty goes beyond art and design. It pervades communication, morality, and even relationships.

It is mastery of self-control.

We are free choice beings, but restraint heightens that awareness when it chooses to do less.

I want to show more restraint in the moment, when it counts.

I want to have the ability to say a thousand nasty words, but instead say a few kind ones like:

I forgive you.

I am sorry.

I love you.

I miss you.

I care.

That’s the beauty of restraint…to have the ability to destroy, but choose to edify.

And I’ll end with a proverb that sums
this whole thang up:

“When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.”
—-Proverbs 10:19

Hope this helps!
Ambini