Good Quotes
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
"People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters."
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."
"The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers."
"It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once."
"I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none."
"One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.."
"You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me."
"My handshake is as firm as cooked spaghetti. So, do you prefer your introductions with Alfredo or marinara sauce?"
"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
"I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one."
"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck"
"Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us."
"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."
"When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad."
"We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise."
"There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey."
"In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it"
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."
"The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones."
"This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad."
"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."
"Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"They don't make songs when the good lose,"I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us."
"The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the daySpills over buildings into the streets where orphans playAnd only You can see the good in broken thingsYou took my heart of stone, and You made it homeAnd set this prisoner free"
"The Doctor: I've seen bigger.Clara: Really?The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!"
"Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.Wisdom is the science of happiness."
"Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?"
"He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted."
"With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made."
"An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes."
"I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both."
"Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose."
"wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good."
"If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act."
"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
"During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good."
"Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself."
"A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God."
"I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."
"...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true. He manifested the glory of God to us, but he added nought to God... Christ's goodness and rightousness reached unto His saints in the earth but God was high above and beyond it all...."
"Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the weight of your conscience must far outweigh the weight of a feather. Two, any impurities in your heart must weigh no more than one feather."
"You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong."
"Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base..."
"Day or night, good or bad…all things from within."
"... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being."
"Evil surrounding can destroy a Good soul."
"...it was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and sang the Persian song:Hearken unto dawn, oh, my soul...Let good come unto the world."
"Good heart, good soul."
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