Goodness Quotes (page 446)

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• caring
• words
• exercise

My uncle ordered popoversfrom the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdomas he sat there on that chair:"To eat these things," said my uncle,"You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the air!"And as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow. Dr. Seuss

• beautiful
• beauty
• good

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• good
• world
• among

Among these, accordingly, much discoursing with spirits went on - and it did a world of good which never became manifest. Charles Dickens

• good
• cooking
• fate

fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows Ani DiFranco

• good
• willing
• willful

Something good will come of all things yet Jack Kerouac

• feeling
• thinking
• beauty her

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her... Henry James

• good
• great
• small

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. Gordon B. Hinckley

• nature
• change
• good

Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed. John Jay

• him
• love him
• friend

If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly. Meister Eckhart

• good
• taste
• try me

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me. Mason Cooley

• love
• perfect
• world

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love. Thomas Jefferson

• good
• pain
• sympathy

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. Percy Bysshe Shelley

• good
• pretty
• bad

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one. Dennis Hopper

• new york
• home
• new

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough John Steinbeck

• good
• soul
• comforting

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery) Christopher Marlowe