Quotes About Good

Cry Sorrow, sorrow--yet let good prevail.

May good prevail, and justify my deed.

A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.

Instead of urging us to place the same value on all things, Proust might more interestingly have been encouraging us to ascribe them their correct value, and hence to revise certain notions of the good life, which risked inspiring an unfair neglect of some settings and a misguided enthusiasm for others.

One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation.

There is no such thing as a necessary evil.

It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was still good in the world. Even if I rarely saw it.

If the physical world were a novel, with the business of examining evil and good, it would not have the clear lines of Dickens but the shadowy ambiguities of Dostoevsky.

Soon there will be war. Millions will burn. Millions will perish in sickness and misery. Why does one death matter against so many? Because there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon I shall not compromise in this. But there are so many deserving of retribution ... and there is so little time.

Stephanie thought about the world she'd grown up in, and how different it was from the world she'd been introduced to, and yet how similar. There was joy and happiness in both, just as there was heartbreak and horror. There was good and evil and everything in between, and these qualities seemed to be shared equally in the worlds of the magical and the mundane. It was her life now. She couldn't imagine living without either one.

America has its own detectives. Some good ones, too. None as good as me, of course." "And that's the burden you bear with such humility.

The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it open.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Remember, it is the nature of the ignorant mind to be drawn towards things that will cause harm and to avoid things that are good. We must remember that what tempts us will in all probability be the cause of our downfall. What we shy away from, what we procrastinate about, probably is what will help us evolve.' So

Ram and Ravana represent two ends of the human spectrum.

But we cannot blame anyone for our misfortunes, as all calamities are an outcome of our past deeds. We have to take responsibility for all the good that happens to us and all the bad. We are the cause, and we have to face the consequences. This is the law of karma.

what is apparently a good deed need not really be a good deed, for every moment is governed by factors that are often beyond human comprehension.

No action exists in isolation. Every decision impacts the ecosystem. Karma is often mistaken for the adage, "As you sow, so shall you reap." The assumption then is that if we sow good deeds, we will reap good rewards. But who decides what action is good or bad? The desire to qualify an action, and its consequence, as good or bad, right or wrong, is a peculiarly human trait. Nature does not do so.

Overcome anger with peace. Overcome evil with good. Overcome greed with generosity. Overcome liars with truth.

The sentence I most sympathized with is 'Whatever hangups this indicated, I'd preferred men who seemed perfectly ordinary' - my sentiments, precisely, about life in general which I don't like to see pushed to fanciful extremes because it's good enough as it is.

Christianity succeeded because it "prompted and sustained attractive, liberating, and effective social relations and organizations."3 Translated from sociologist-speak, that means Christians did risky, compelling, and good things that helped people.

Dear Artificer, I've blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!