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Quotes About Goodness

In the end, I think that's what matters, that he's truly a good person and that he's real. That he's someone you can hold on to on a cold winter's night and who knows how to make you feel warm inside.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Are you sure you don't think that if you save someone decent, you'll save the world, or at least the possibility that something good might be left in it?
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Put prema paklu poplo?an je dobrim namjerama.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Caminó lentamente, despidiéndose de cada portal, de cada esquina, preguntándose se la trampa de tiempo sería cierta y algún día sólo sería capaz de recordar lo bueno, de olvidar la soledad que tantas veces le había perseguido en aquellas calles.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La malvagità presuppone un certo spessore morale, forza di volontà e intelligenza. L'idiota invece non si sofferma a ragionare, obbidisce all'istinto, come un animale nella stalla, convinto di agire in nome del bene e di avere sempre ragione.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You know what kids are like. Deep down, God has filled them with goodness, but they repeat what they hear at home.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A veces, cuando los dioses no miran y el destino se pierde por el camino, incluso la buena gente tiene un poco de suerte en la vida.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Eu o observam cu coada ochiului È™i îmi d?deam seama c?, numai când m? uitam la ea, începea s?-mi vin? mai puÈ›in greu s? cred c?, poate, înc? mai r?m?sese ceva bun È™i decent în lumea asta mizerabil? È™i, cu ceva noroc, în mine însumi.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness—it's too good, you see, too stupidly good.
~ Carol Shields
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It
~ Caroline Kennedy
Aunt Sugar says that no one is completely evil or completely good. I discovered my bad part when he was so smug. I wanted to strangle him.
~ Carolyn Brown
Solange ich glücklich war, war ich ein ganz guter Mensch.
~ Carson McCullers
I ... do not even know what I should conceive the good to be, if I eliminate the pleasures of taste, and eliminate the pleasures of sex, and eliminate the pleasures of listening, and eliminate the pleasant motions caused in our vision by a sensible form. ~ Epicurus
~ Catherine Wilson
A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul.
~ Cecelia Ahern
To remember is not a punishment, Asher. To remember is a victory against the sitra achra, against Hitler, may his name be erased. The film is a sanctification of the name of God. Why should I not participate in it?
~ Chaim Potok
My message is that God is a good God.
~ Joel Osteen
I've never met an evil person ever.
~ Greg Boyle
Beauty and goodness are there in each of us. A true spiritual partner is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you've been seeking. A true teacher is someone who helps you discover the teacher in yourself.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity; there are some things in the world that are good but not pleasant and others that are pleasant but not good. But to live in peace is both pleasant and good.
~ Thomas Brooks
God has in Himself all power to defend you; all wisdom to direct you; all mercy to pardon you; all grace to enrich you; all righteousness to clothe you; all goodness to supply you; and all happiness to crown you.
~ Thomas Brooks
There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan—than to argue from God's mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness. This is the devil's logic, and in whomever you find it, you may write, 'This soul is lost!' A man may as truly say, 'the sea burns', or 'the fire cools—as that God's free grace and mercy should make a truly gracious soul to live wickedly.
~ Thomas Brooks
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly, they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express those actions of their inward forms. And having passed that general visitation of God, who saw that all that he had made was good, that is, conformable to his will, which abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and beauty; there is no deformity but in monstrosity, wherein, notwithstanding there is a kind of beauty.
~ Thomas Browne
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
~ Thomas Hardy
The reason of that is, she said eagerly, that he goes in privately by the old tower door, just when the service commences, and sits at the back of the gallery. He told me so. This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel ears like the thirteenth stroke of crazy clock. It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw a doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.
~ Thomas Hardy