All Quotes By Tag: Good
“After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.”
“Good Bones”Life is short, though I keep this from my children.Life is short, and I’ve shortened minein a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,a thousand deliciously ill-advised waysI’ll keep from my children. The world is at leastfifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservativeestimate, though I keep this from my children.For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,sunk in a lake. Life is short and the worldis at least half terrible, and for every kindstranger, there is one who would break you,though I keep this from my children. I am tryingto sell them the world. Any decent realtor,walking you through a real shithole, chirps onabout good bones: This place could be beautiful,right? You could make this place beautiful.”
“If you look for the bad in your life you will find some, but if you look for the good you will find it everywhere.”
“Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?”
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“Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.”
“Here’s another poem,like all others before and after,dedicated to you.There isn’t anything left to be saidbut I will spend my lifetrying to put you into words.You who is every goodness,every optimismand hope.Your love is a better fate for methan anything I could wish for.If you are a part of me, then you’re the best part.And if you’re separate from me, then you are my destination.But I’ve become a weary traveller,so please,let us never be apart.”
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“IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING GOOD IN YOUR LIFE, DON’T LET IT GO.”
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“Every good deed is a sacrifice .”
“Be thankful every time ,when someone is good to you. Don’t forget that every kindness or good deed is a sacrifice to the person who is doing it.”
“The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.”
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“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never be conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning.Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”
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“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”
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“Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.”
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“During moments of strife and ‘dis-ease’, check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.”
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow…”
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