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A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
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