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Goodness Quotes (page 444)

He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest? he had seen beautiful things and horrible things? but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying. Michael Ende
The central issue in that pre-mortal council was: Shall the children of God have untrammeled agency to choose the course they should follow, whether good or evil, or shall they be coerced and forced to be obedient? Christ and all who followed Him stood for the former proposition—freedom of choice; Satan stood for the latter—coercion and force. The war that began in heaven over this issue is not yet over. The conflict continues on the battlefield of mortality. And one of Lucifer’s primary... Ezra Taft Benson
O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready, with every nod, to tumble down. Into the fatal bowels of the deep. William Shakespeare
They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist. Laurell K. Hamilton
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. Rainer Maria Rilke
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing makes me happy. The fact that people, in pursuit of a superficial look of health, give themselves a fatal disease. I love it when 'reasoning' human beings think they have figured out how to beat something and it comes right back and kicks them in the nuts. God bless the law of unintended consequences. And the irony is impressive: Healthy people, trying to... George Carlin
Emily Post quote: "Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary..."
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. Emily Post
William Least Heat-Moon quote: "You never feel better than when you start feeling good after..."
You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad. William Least Heat-Moon
Joyce Kilmer quote: "The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows. Is..."
The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows. Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes Joyce Kilmer
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no... Marcus Aurelius
pity this busy monster, manunkind'pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond)plays with the bigness of his littleness--- electrons deify one razorbladeinto a mountainrange; lenses extendunwish through curving wherewhen till unwishreturns on its unself. A world of madeis not a world of born --- pity poor fleshand trees, poor stars and stones, but never thisfine specimen of... E. E. Cummings
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the..."
Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you. J. R. R. Tolkien
All Nature is but art, unknown to theeAll chance, direction, which thou canst not see;All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. Alexander Pope
Charles Reade quote: "I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his..."
I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'Then look your fill, and leap away. Charles Reade
Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it. Glenn Beck

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