313 quotes found
“In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety.”
“Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes pa...”
“Don’taccept good things from bad people.”
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power”
“You’re the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You’re the light people crawl through darkness for. You’re the good that balances out all the bad.”
“It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? Ho...”
“He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the b...”
“He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.”
“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.”
“At nine o'clock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar. He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us....”
“Now I realize that everything you need for measuring a person can be found in the nature of what he chooses to hide from everyone else. That's all you need to know to gauge his goodness.”
“Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.What else could it be but to live life fully— to pay ou...”
“When goodness is going beyond the limit, Fools think it bad.”
“Remember that everything that is good, whatever it’s origin, comes from the holy spirit.”
“There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.”
“I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.”
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.”
“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole”
“I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.”
“Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!”
