Quotes About Good

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the futue. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

When there's too much silence, she said, so many ideas come to mind, I don't pay attention. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles

You're really a good girl, poor you.

Scriveva, nelle ultime pagine, di sentirsi intorno tutto il male del rione. Anzi, buttava li oscuramente: male e bene sono mescolati e si rinforzano a vicenda. Marcello, a rifletterci, era veramente una buona sistemazione, ma il buono sapeva di cattivo e il cattivo sapeva di buono, un'amalgama che le toglieva il fiato.

that my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn't books that made people good but good people who made some good books.

Naquele momento, uma parte de mim desejava de fato discutir com ele sobre o mal que, enquanto você acha que está sendo boa, aos poucos ou de repente, se espalha pela cabeça, pelo estômago, por todo o corpo. De onde isso nasce, papai - eu queria perguntar -, como podemos controlar, e por que esse mal não elimina o bem, mas convive com ele.

If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature.

We draw up lists of the good and the bad as if the many privileges deriving from chance aren't there: your place of birth, your family, the inequality of opportunities.

Because, you see, the cruel gods are stronger than the kind gods, and they will always beat them in the end. You doubt it? Look at the world, my brother, my sister. And so the spirit of Roth is here with me also, and battles for my soul. And I don't know who will win.

Where Epictetus advised testing the value of things by asking whether they are in our power, Chrysippus recommended the following two questions: Is there good or bad at hand? Is it appropriate to react? For a Stoic, the answer to the first question would be yes only if it refers to our virtue. Otherwise it would always be no, because nothing external to us is truly good or bad. It follows that the answer to the second question would also be no, it is not appropriate to react.

Musonius Rufus writes that the soul is strengthened by first reminding ourselves of the right perspectives and then moulding our actions to this understanding, so that we stop pursuing things that are not truly good and stop avoiding things that only seem bad. In this way, we 'won't welcome pleasure and avoid pain … won't love living and fear death, and … in the case of money, [we] won't honor receiving over giving.

Denn in den Menschen wohnt, verborgen in der Tiefe, die Überzeugung, alles Böse wäre hässlich und alles Gute schön, und es wird wohl nie jemand herausfinden, warum es so ist.

Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood's forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth… Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common.

In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.

A brave is only that person who fights merely for the good people's rights against the knave.

A good person never says always good, but could also get rude to use rough language against the rascal and rogue people.

A good thought with a bad or selfish intention will have the multiple ill-effects on the motivation of the audience than even a bit of wrong impact from the bad words of a good or selfless person.

A loving person is docile towards only caring soul but may also get hostile towards the evil people.

A person can keep either creativity or money in own mind but never both at the same time and that's the reason the wicked private organizations do not give good amount of money to a creative person but to all crooks.

A person enjoys own protection bestowed by invisible God from the negative people in proportion to selfless good intention for others.

A person speaks about his or her level of COMMON SENSE by showing the depth of reverence towards the kind of people whom he or she likes, but the width of his or her true intelligence is gauged correctly and only by one making in others life the real good difference.

A person who is pretending to be good to others gets often most support on own post from netizens and is mostly seen standing on physical ground surrounded by many people.