Quotes About Good

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

The only good is knowledge, Sekhandur. The only evil is ignorance'. 'That is a saying uttered by as many fools as visionaries and an attitude that has led to damnation more than once. The last man to speak those words in my presence doomed our Legion.

Her bone-white face lit up like she was at a surprise party. "Hear that, Dwyer? He called me ma'am! Stay forever if you want, big guy. Teach my son a thing or two about manners." "He's good people," Kyle said. "Always has been." It was the last thing I wanted to hear at that moment. "I'm not always good," I shot back. "Ooooo, polite and a bad boy," Gina cooed. "Watch out, ladies.

Good and upright is the LORD: therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. PSALM 25:8–9

Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!

Nay – whoever submits his whole self to Allah and is a doer of good – he will get his reward with his Lord; on such shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. --from The History Lesson

Divorce is always experienced as a failure. It threatens a person's self-image of being good, being loved, being valued.

Love and appreciation are identical vibrations. Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good. When you focus upon what you want – when you tell the story of how you want your life to be – you will come closer and closer to the vicinity of appreciation, and when you reach it, it will pull you toward all things that you consider to be good in a very powerful way.

Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgement of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.

If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

If Norman had found a way, had stumbled on a path--or, indeed, if he had not found a way--then I wanted to know. I was after something more intimate, something less elegant and Kübler-Ross's stages of denial, anger, bargaining, grieving and acceptance. I simply wanted to know how to accomplish a good death.

If you expect terrible things…then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

God's and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.