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All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart.
— James     Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.
— Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones
Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other's burdens? ... What makes you and I so different, Ayden?
— Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges
My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind of like the old me suddenly taking over, and I promised myself that this was how I would act if I ever saw you.' 'I have the same thing, but with Tom Stoppard,' I said. 'You'd kill Tom Stoppard?' 'Not at all. I promised myself many years ago that I would throw myself at his feet and scream "I'm not worthy!" if I ever met him, so now if we're ever at the same party or something, I have to be at pains to avoid him. It would be undignified, you see—for him and for me.
— Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died A Lot
If it is not right do not do it
—  if it is not true do not say it.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. 
— Jim Henson
Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.
— Stephen King
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
— C.S. Lewis
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
— Adam Smith
But the scent of the good is blown against the wind: A good man perfumes all directions.
— Anonymous, The Dhammapada
Not all good things come from good people.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?
— Shūsaku Endō, Wonderful Fool
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
— Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.
— Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know
The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or onewho hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteemnothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practicevirtue in such a way that he would not allow anything that is notvirtuous to approach his person."Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I havenot seen the case in which his strength would be insufficient."Should there possibly be any such case, I have not seen it.
— Confucius, The Analects by Confucius
The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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.
— Confucius, The Analects
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 particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries, and what tones of voice make it gentle or wild. Once he's spent enough time in the creature's company to acquire all this information, he calls it knowledge, forms it into a systematic branch of expertise, and starts to teach it, despite total ignorance, in fact, about which of the creature's attitudes and desires is commendable or deplorable, good or bad, moral or immoral. His usage of all these terms simply conforms to the great beast's attitudes, and he describes things as good or bad according to its likes and dislikes, and can't justify his usage of the terms any further, but describes as right and good the things which are merely indispensable, since he hasn't realised and can't explain to anyone else how vast a gulf there is between necessity and goodness.
— Plato, The Republic
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
— F.H. Bradley
i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.
— Bob Hicok
Life was small but good. (15)
— Francesca Lia Block, House of Dolls
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
— Confucius
Goodness preaches constantly, wants to change humanity, to work miracles from one day to the next, makes a show of its substance, wants to question essentials, but in fact is most often just hollow, lacking in substance, essence itself. A good word which has not yet been put into practice holds within itself every virgin possibility and is more than a good deed, the outcome of which is dubious, its effect arguable. In general words are always more than deeds.
— Deszo Koszstolanyi
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.
— Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.
— Megan Jacobson, The Build-up Season
We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.
— Toni Morrison
Sometimes, if you have faith in people they'll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing most people want to be good.
— Gwenda Bond, Triple Threat
Don’taccept good things from bad people.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please.
— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
Feeling tired of your four walls?Jesus commanded us to "GO", not sit! (Mark 16:15) Just saying!
— John M Sheehan
Goodness follows goodness, all in God’s time.
— Ron Baratono
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
— François de La Rochefoucauld
Acknowledge the good around you and the simplicity it takes to recognise it
— Moonish Sood
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.
— Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Authentic acts of goodness set you free
—  they don't enslave you.
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.
— Jeannine Allison, Unveiling Ghosts
Believer of extremely good world that you and I are part of.
— Kishan Barai
Do the Good to Bad then Bad will do Good to you
— shashidhar sa
We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is looking up to us as we take each breath. We can be just a grape or we can be the juice that offers simplicity, nourishment and refreshment. Extract and empty your goodness. Pass it into the hearts of the people looking up to you. It will multiply beyond your highest good.﻿
— Angie karan
There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.
— C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.
— Han Kang, The Vegetarian
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? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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 bad things if you can. That was goodness.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.
— Edmund White, Our Young Man
Religion is treasured when it brings goodness out of a person.
— Gugu Mona
Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
So why not make it better? If we want to see goodness in our lives, we should make it happen. If I can bring just a little help to someone's life, even for a moment, it's better than doing nothing at all.
— Davon M. Custis, The Memory of Lost Dreams
When you help other people you also help yourself it's impossible to not feel good when you do good for other people
— Dalia, Reflections: Magic Beyond the Pain
You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.
— Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings
y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still havethat there is enough goodness in man to use the omnipotence science hasgiven him to ennoble his life on earth instead of degrading it. Self government,through dangers and distortions and failures, is the Americancause. Faith in self government, when all is said and done, is faith in theeventual goodness of man
— John dos Passos
That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?
— Marissa Meyer, Winter
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It is true that there is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, but intimately connected with love and forgiveness, faith and hope, that can fill our minds and hearts with positive energy- we can overcome head on, any obstacle or hardship we may encounter.
— Angie karan
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Sadness makes you notice the goodness.
— Emily Huffstetler
The problem in today's world is that people do not believe (lack trust) in goodness.
— Amit Abraham
Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
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. When he took grandmother's hand, he bent over it as he always did, and said slowly, 'Good woman!' He made the sign of the cross over me, put on his cap and went off in the dark. As we turned back to the sitting-room, grandfather looked at me searchingly. 'The prayers of all good people are good,' he said quietly.
— Willa Cather, My Ántonia
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.
— Jamie  Mason
Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.
— John  Adams
Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling the truth, which is that most of us are a frightening mix of good and evil, sinner and saint.
— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
I don’t know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don’t know what to make of it.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Of course it's better to be good. I know it ism but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it.
— L.M. Montgomery
The seed of good reaps the harvest of goodness.
— Sunday Adelaja
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 out goodnesslike the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Good deeds are ambassadors from Heaven.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Both God and goodness are structured upon a foundation which solicits the essentials of higher level logic – a part of holy-istic culture.
— Priyavrat Thareja
Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.
— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
-the apartment had been directly in the sight line of a Serb sniper across the river. Teta-Jozefina was a devout Catholic, but she somehow managed to believe in essential human goodness, despite all the abundant evidence to the contrary surrounding her. She felt that the sniper was essentially a good man because during the siege, she said, he had often shot over her and her husband's heads to warn them that he was watching and that they shouldn't move so carelessly in their own apartment.
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
(...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her language is singularly agreeable to me, and the information she communicates is often just what I wished to gain.”“Well, then, with Miss Temple you are good?”“Yes, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides me. There is no merit in such goodness.”“A great deal: you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and sothey would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”“You will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl.”“But I feel this, Helen; I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.”“Heathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilised nations disown it.” “How? I don’t understand.”“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”“What then?”“Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts; make His word your rule, and His conduct your example.”“What does He say?”“Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.
— Charlotte Brontë
Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.
— Dalai Lama XIV, How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married
I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.
— R.M. ArceJaeger
When goodness is going beyond the limit, Fools think it bad.
— حکیم
God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.
— Colby Buzzell, My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for the love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.
— Robert Ellsberg
Remember that everything that is good, whatever it’s origin, comes from the holy spirit.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Conquer evil with good deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.
— Robert Ellsberg, The Saints' Guide to Happiness
Live and love with your soul's goodness and inner beauty as your heart leaps upward in any season of your life.
— Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
— Ally Condie, Atlantia
You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
There’s what you’re forced to do, there’s what you choose, and everything else—most things—are a mix. At best, you’ll spend your life trying not to get hurt, but trying not to do the hurting, either. You won’t always come through, but it’s the best anyone can do. It’s the trying I’d call good.
— Alexandra Duncan, Salvage
When chasing success
—  Your greatest asset is not what you get from it but who you become because of it.
Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity' and the question of personal freedom are two different questions and are not mutually exclusive. Individual goodness will always abide, because it is a personal need, a living need for the direct influence of one person on another. ...In sowing your seed, in sowing your 'charity,' your good deed in whatever form it takes, you give away part of your person and receive into yourself part of another's; you mutually commune in each other; a little more attention, and you will be rewarded with knowledge, with the most unexpected discoveries. You will be bound, finally, to look at your work as a science; it will take in the whole of your life and maybe fill the whole of it. On the other hand, all your thoughts, all the seeds you have sown, which you may already have forgotten, will take on flesh and grow; what was received from you will be passed on to someone else. And how do you know what share you will have in the future outcome of human destiny? And if the knowledge and the whole life of this work finally raises you so high that you are able to plant a tremendous seed, to bequeath a tremendous thought to mankind, then...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.
— Geoffrey Wood
For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing.
— Geoffrey Wood
If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.
— Geoffrey Wood
The intimate space of your personal life should be reserved for amazing, beautiful, radiant souls — good, wholesome and loving people.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Being a good person has nothing to do with allowing people to destroy you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Inside of every good person there is also something very wild.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
You will never know anyone more intimately than yourself. Love yourself and be good to yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If your attitudes are good, then your world will be better.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Whoever is in charge of such things had been sparing with his blessings on the moment Benno was born. He had neither looks nor wit nor skill. He was not large or strong, he could not sing; in fact, he had a stammer, which on most occasions left him self-consciously mute. One gift only had been given, a gift as simple as it is rare: the gift of pure goodness. He knew, unerringly, what was right, what was kind, what would make people happy, and he did it without fail. His goodness took no effort; there was no internal scale to be balanced. He hoped for no reward and feared no hell. He was not clever- in his final year of school before the teachers despaired of him, he was asked how he would equitably divide a half-pound loaf of bread among himself and two friends. He said he would go without and his two friends would each have a quarter pound, and neither threats of failure not the switch could persuade him to change his answer.
— Laura L. Sullivan, Love by the Morning Star
If Captain Jean-Luc Picard asked you to serve him aboard the starship Enterprise, you'd likely be happy to. You would recognise him as a great leader and a good man, and so you wouldn't have any problem following his orders. This is basically the relationship God wants with us - not slaves, not pets, not possessions, we would be co-workers and friends.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.
— John A. Ashley, Seas of Darkness
God's being good does not somehow magically make all Christians good.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Truth is the spirit of all that is good and worthy through loving.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
An eternal life is a life that one lives according to his or her decree to ultimately be a fine human being, agreeing with the concept of goodness, foreseeing the dangers ahead either by prophesies or by anticipation and to serve our Heavenly Father unselfishly.
— Anthony Pan
The public good must come before private interests.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold, so hard?"A smile flickered on John’s face, one that was neither happy nor sad. "What would be the worth of goodness, in a world that always rewarded it?
— Matthew Jobin, The Nethergrim
but is it not heartening to know that so many are willing to fight for the good? Think of that young librarian, Sophie, who made certain you escaped. Think of S.Q., who risked my brother’s wrath to make me more comfortable. Think of Captain Noland, and Joe Shooter, and all the others – even strangers – who were prepared to sacrifice their safety, perhaps even their lives, on our behalf. That’s something, is it not?
— Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment quickly follows, yielding dire punishment, inflicting general terror and paranoia, eventually culminating in revolt, leading to chaos, then dissolution, and thus, the end of civilisation.” He slowly turned, looked down upon Emancipor. “And we are creatures dependent upon civilisation. It is the only environment in which we can thrive.” Emancipor frowned. “The desire for goodness leads to the end of civilisation?” “Precisely, Mister Reese.” “But if the principal aim is to achieve good living and health among the populace, what is the harm in that?” Bauchelain sighed. “Very well, I shall try again. Good living and health, as you say, yielding well-being. But well-being is a contextual notion, a relative notion. Perceived benefits are measured by way of contrast. In any case, the result is smugness, and from that an overwhelming desire to deliver conformity among those perceived as less pure, less fortunate—the unenlightened, if you will. But conformity leads to ennui, and then indifference. From indifference, Mister Reese, dissolution follows as a natural course, and with it, once again, the end of civilisation.
— Steven Erikson, Bauchelain and Korbal Broach
It is nice to be important, but it is very important for you to be nice to people
— Herdeymorlah
I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can’t come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.
— David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law
Doing goodness creates shining
—  he who does goodness shines in the eyes and in the hearts of others!
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
— Agatha Christie
There is so much you don't know about a person. I wonder if I could've made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. If I'd treated her a little nicer. Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
— Kathyrn Stockett
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile
— Filths savour but themselves...
Benevolence is often very peremptory.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man.
— Amit Kalantri
Happiness lies in our heart. We have to nurture it with blossoms of faith and steady stream of goodness to brush aside the thistles of everyday strife.
— Balroop Singh
Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.
— Ken Dereste Dorcely, Life Tone Changed
Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
— John Dufresne, Love Warps the Mind a Little
This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway.
— David Foster Wallace
The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others.
— Lisa Schroeder, Falling For You
You must know that with a good heart you can never be a poor person! And you must also know that with a bad heart it is impossible to be a rich person! Goodness enriches
—  badness impoverishes!
People forget your goodness
—  teach thing something so they can always remember.
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Perhaps there really is a good that exists; for a century of darkness to be eschewed by a single flame; for a decade of evil done to the heart to be undone by simple and unplanned acts of kindness! There must be a goodness, after all! But we don't find it when we're looking for it; not in church, not in a cathedral, not even in our own homes! We find it when we've fallen down so hard, are downtrodden so low; and there is one true friend who picks us up; or one random person who takes us in! And we realize goodness was never in the places we thought it was! It was all along in the most humble of places: bound up in the heart of a true friend.
— C. JoyBell C.
But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?
— Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life
We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole
— Seneca
I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.
— Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
We each have words for "love" in our languages. What would the world look like if we acted on that one word for humanity's sake?
— Julie Saffrin, BlessBack: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life
The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to God without a revolution of the spirit; he must stop seeking his good in Godlessness.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop
Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sun shines with its light
—  flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses.
For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is to a schoolboy. It is just because he does not want to steal, because he does not covet his neighbour's goods, that he has captured the trick (oh, how we all long for it!), the trick of coveting his own goods. It is just because he does not want to commit adultery that he achieves the romance of sex; it is just because he loves one wife that he has a hundred honeymoons.
— G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?
— G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
— John Paul II
Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. “The obligations of normal human kindness – chesed, as the Hebrew has it – that we all owe. But there’s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There’s a kind of vanity in goodness.”I could hardly believe my ears. “But aren’t we supposed to be good?”“I’m not sure.” Grandfather’s voice was heavy. “I do know that we’re not good, and there’s a lot of truth to the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.
— Ami McKay, The Birth House
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
— Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.
— Carroll Bryant
Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
— Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl
To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.
— Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.
— Katie Ashley, The Proposal
Love hurts when it changes us.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away.Never enough to make them love you.
— Manna Francis, First Against the Wall
You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.
— Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me like a sickness, robbing me of my senses and physically, excruciatingly painful. My mother's words echoed in my ear. Abby was the girl I had to fight for, and I went down fighting. None of it was ever going to be enough.
— Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster
One day you're going to remember me and how much i loved you...then you're gonna hate yourself for letting me go
— Drake
I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it?I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating.Where have you gone?Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven.I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.
— Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake
Ladies if A Man is More Invested and Concerned About Your Assets....He Is A Liability
— Mo Stegall
I’ve fallen for the one person I shouldn’t have. For the boy who broke Mary’s heart. For Rennie’s one true love. For Alex’s best friend.It has to end here. Now.
— Jenny Han, Fire with Fire
I'll never tell you to stop loving. You see, I believe in hopeless love. Oh yes. I believe in it with all my heart, though you may discount the heart of an old nanny like me. For real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.
— Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Moonblood
If you love something, let it go...
— Karen Halvorsen Schreck, While He Was Away
Love must not suffocate but breathe on its own.
— Soraya Naomi, For Fallon
Love hurts, if rejected or betrayed.If not at all, then love is all around.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see the woman you love, the one woman you would do anything to protect, is the woman who is afraid of you. It broke his heart.
— Mallika Nawal, I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE
If you love something, let it go…
— Karen Shreck
It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.
— Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
It's such a huge arrogance to love someone, and there's too much of it around. There's too much love in this world. Sometimes I think that's what heavens is-- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat
— Sonya Watson, The Tide Breaker
And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also leave one open to so much pain. In a strange way, he envied Samuel even that. He wanted to care about someone so much that it could hurt.
— John Connolly, The Gates
The clouds wept when my heart sand a song of sorrow
— Sonya Watson, The Tide Breaker
Balsa seemed invincible, endowed with powers no other warrior could match, but in her profile he could glimpse the shadow of a young girl, hurt and buffeted by a cruel and hopeless fate. If he had never experienced what it was like to be at the mercy of fate himself, he would not have noticed, but now he could see it with unbearable, heartrending clarity.
— Nahoko Uehashi, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.
— Luanne Rice
She loves him with a love that sees no flaws, find no fault, knows no bounds...Oh God, please don't let her hurt too badly and, please, never, never let me love like that.
— Jennifer Wilde, The Slipper
You took my heart and you held it in your mouthAnd, with a word all my love came rushing outAnd, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single wordThere is a hollow in me now...And Every whisper, every sighEats away at this heart of mineAnd there is a hollow in me now.So I put my faith in something unknownI'm living on such sweet nothingBut I'm trying to hope with nothing to holdI'm living on such sweet nothing.
— Florence Welch
Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Is that a rule? Do you have a rule that you can’t kiss people in the morning?
— Holly Hood
Frankie raised an eyebrow. Look at you getting all sentimental. You know where to find me.Delaney nodded. That doesn’t mean you want to be found. Come on. One drink.
— Holly Hood
Frankie scanned her eyes. I don’t ask for things. I take them.
— Holly Hood
If you want to get rid of Rose then fine, I’ll take care of it. But I don’t think that is going to solve your problem. You’ll still be here. And you are your problem.
— Holly Hood
But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who had robbed him of his peace, Ann who had once made the present so important and taught him the habit of reality, and when she went there was nothing.
— John le Carré, Call for the Dead
Sharing pillow talk with the wrong people can make a hard bed to lie on, and will surely lead to nightmares in your relationship.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
I adore you, Emilia Ward, let me worship you and I will be your dog, your slave… anything you want. Just don’t leave me.
— Amanda Lance, Endangered Hearts
Sam studied his brother. At one time he thought Frankie had a good head on his shoulders. Sure, he had a temper. And he was conceited. But he always used common sense. But now he wasn’t so sure if that were true. He had brought him his lifeless fiancé. Like a dog dragging in a dead rabbit looking for praise.
— Holly Hood
He couldn't tell Zeke how they would be tomorrow, because he didn't know that answer yesterday, did he?
— Clare London, True Colors
I've been in love and you'll never know
— Sam Smith
It is the curse to search you in every person I meet, the curse with no cure
— ehddah
The Price of Love Is Getting Hurt When Least Expected
— Sami Abouzid
They are telling you, you will forget about her but they are lying, because you will forget about what used to be the light of your life and you can still feel it you are in darkness after letting her go
— Sami Abouzid
When She Needs a Reminder of Your Birthdate, Make Sure Not to Remind Her That She was Once a part Of Your Life
— Sami Abouzid
Brain fucked, mind sucked, heart crushed but you are still untouched.
— Ajay Antony
Love hurts, Love will make you cry, Oh your heart still aching, From living a lie.
— Sami Abouzid
Oh , You Want To Be My World , What Have You Done To Gain My Heart . It’s a Fantasy, Only In Your Mind
— Sami Abouzid
All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there’s a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart.
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
30 degree to forget the girl I love150 degree to forget again360 degree to protect the girl I love
— Yuna Takagi, Undead lovers
If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
You deserve someone who you don't mind sharing your world with—someone you can trust in it. You deserve someone that you don't have to second guess. You deserve someone you trust as much as you trust yourself. You deserve someone you can talk to and not have to talk over. You deserve someone who believes in your dreams and loves you for your passion. You deserve someone who is worthy---someone who can love you the way you deserve to be loved. You deserve someone who will listen and not hold what you shared against you later. You deserve someone who makes you laugh. You deserve someone who makes you whole. You deserve someone who will make you smile every day, and I deserve the same thing, too.
— Terry a O'Neal
He'd been ten years old when he'd last begged someone for something, and he'd promised himself he'd never do it again, but this was too important.
— Christine Feehan, Bound Together
Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don't but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do..
— Anonymous
I was hurting him even though I was in love with him, and he knows that I do. Maybe this is what love does to you.
— Jessica Madden, Silent Love
Not every breakup hurts, not every love story sucks. It's the love that comes with a warning that it will hurt you and suck your blood out of you.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, Will You Walk A Mile?
Legend of the Cryptids card (Tragic Maiden Wotan adv.)Lore: It was the knowledge of love that brought solitude. It was the knowledge of love that brought despair. That was why Wotan made the decision to become detested rather than adored. "O cursed crown, grant me my desires!
— anotherwanderer DeviantArtist
It is not good to play with a delicate heart, my dear. Pain you will know. When someone will play with your heart.
— Sachin sawariya
I know that your time is very precious,I am also a prince, we will not meet again
— Sachin sawariya
I know that your time is very precious,I am also a prince, we will not meet again and again
— Sachin sawariya
I know that , your time is very precious, But Dear .I am also a prince, we will not meet again and again
— Sachin sawariya
She did not come, her memories is remainedIn The desire to meet them, my is spoiled
— Sachin sawariya
One thing that they don’t tell you is that fires can’t burn bright forever.
— T.J. Klune, Olive Juice
Nothing for young woman who yearned for something as extraordinary , and yet entirely normal , as love
— Lisa Kleypas, Crystal Cove
Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He went up to his room and sat down at the desk to write the hardest note he’d ever written in his life. He tore up four attempts before he was happy with what he’d written. It was short and to the point. “You mean everything to me.”I
— Michelle Frost, Wisdoms of the Light
When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.
— Saadat Hasan Manto, Bombay Stories
Then I wondered if everybody has that person that haunts them, the one that got away.
— Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
He had not escaped the guilt, nor forgotten it, but how pale it seemed in light of all he had suffered for love of his brother and his brother's wife in these past few years.
— Leigh Bristol, Amber Skies
Don't know what hurts me more, talking or not talking to him.
— Shivani
She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.
— E. Leo Foster, The Exiles