313 quotes found
“If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
“Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.”
“Nonviolence is a way of life, where the task is to awaken the underlying goodness of every human being.”
“I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings ...”
“I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.”
“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”
“Why cant I be like that? Why cant I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why cant I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can...”
“A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.”
“Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.”
“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
“In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it'...”
“I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.”
“Oh, but I was an idiot. Wanting to be whatever magic she waited for, when I had no magic - only darkness or death to give. But it seemed in that one instant, when she turned to discover what was be...”
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
“We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them”
“We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.”
“People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.”
