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Quotes About Goodness

I wanted love and goodness in this which is living death,' I said. 'It was impossible from the beginning, because you cannot have love and goodness when you do what you know to be evil, what you know to be wrong. You can only have the desperate confusion and longing and the chasing of phantom goodness in its human form.
~ Anne Rice
Chi ha smesso di credere in Dio o nel bene continua lo stesso a credere nel diavolo. Non so perché. No, anzi, lo so: il male è sempre possibile. E il bene è eternamente difficile.»
~ Anne Rice
La gente que deja de creer en Dios, o en la bondad, sigue creyendo en el demonio. No sé por qué. No; sé muy bien por qué. El mal siempre es posible. Y la bondad es eternamente difícil.
~ Anne Rice
what endures is what has always mattered: love—that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good—that hope will be realized through love.
~ Anne Rice
A greedy sense of goodness overcame me that I wasn't damned. I felt too much love.
~ Anne Rice
Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We
~ Anne Rice
Ma negli indemoniati ci credeva >>. « Quella è un'idea molto più accettabile» rispose immediatamente il vampiro. «Chi ha smesso di credere in Dio o nel bene continua lo stesso a credere nel diavolo. Non so perché. No, anzi, lo so: il male è sempre possibile. E il bene è eternamente difficile.»
~ Anne Rice
All comfort, all goodness, all hope was burning in this black figure which my eyes would not let go, even as it dwindled, and lost all perpetual form.
~ Anne Rice
My wife used to say that her idea of hell would be marrying Ghandi, Ben said ... Think about it: Ghandi was always the good one. Everyone else looked so rude and loud and self-centered by comparison.
~ Anne Tyler
In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.
~ Annie Dillard
People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home.
~ Annie Dillard
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.
~ Sebastian Barry
Tuhan menciptakan segala sesuatu untuk kebaikan. Dan untuk kebaikan ini pula dia menganugerahkan kepada manusia kemampuan berpikir; tapi kita manusia kadang-kadang menggunakan kemampuan diskriminasi ini secara keliru. Inilah kejahatan.
~ Sh?saku End?
Aku tidak percaya Tuhan memberikan cobaan ini pada kami tanpa maksud tertentu. Aku yakin suatu hari nanti kami akan memahami dengan jelas, mengapa penganiayaan serta segala penderitaan ini ditimpakan pada kami - sebab segala yang dilakukan Tuhan kita adalah demi kebaikan kita juga.
~ Sh?saku End?
Ako nekoga mrzi mnogo ljudi, to mora da je dobar ?ovek.
~ Shakespere
The Dalai Lama has said: "My religion is kindness." If we all adopted such a stance and embodied it in thought and action, inner and outer peace would be immediate, for in reality they are never not present, only obscured, waiting to be discovered. This is the work and the power of lovingkindness, the embrace that allows no separation between self, others, and events—the affirmation and honoring of a core goodness in others and in oneself.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Cultivate the good. One can cultivate the good. If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it. If this cultivation were to bring harm and suffering, I would not ask you to do it. But as this cultivation brings benefit and happiness, I say, cultivate the good.
~ Sharon Salzberg
May the actions that I take toward the good, toward understanding myself, toward being more peaceful be of benefit to all beings everywhere. And
~ Sharon Salzberg
The most effective way to share the gospel is to live it. When we live like disciples of Christ should live, when we aren't just good but happy to be good, others will be drawn to us.
~ Sheri L. Dew
What scares me least? The Afterlife. Really. Who cares? I'm going to be a good person no matter what is supposed to happen after I die.
~ Sherman Alexie
It is warm, soon to be cold, but that's in the future, maybe tomorrow, probably the next day and all the days after that. Today, now, I drink what I have, will eat what is left in the cupboard, while my mother finishes her quilt, piece by piece. Believe me, there is just barely enough goodness in all of this.
~ Sherman Alexie
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man goodness, the miser with generosity, and the liar with truth. (Indian proverb) It sounds good, doesn't it? If only people and life were that effing easy. Trust me, it takes more than a friendly biscuit to tame a hungry lion. And it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's war. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No one has ever touched me like you do. You're like a whisper. Gentle, soft. Soothing. In my world, the people only shout and scream. But you… you're my haven. " … "God, you're good
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just love to put a hurt on evil things. (Katra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon