#good

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher ... and that is a good thing for any man. ↗

— Socrates

#marriage #philospher #marriage

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#good #inspirational #soul #inspirational

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

#goodness #inspiration #letting-go #life #love

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#good #religion #science #inspirational

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#christianity #good-and-evil #jesus #jesus-christ #laws

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

#good-intentions #goodness #men

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words. ↗

— Thomas More

#good-nature #heart #kindness #mankind #men

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#attention #beautiful #best #convinced #dwell

Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happiness #inspirational #joy #peace #pleasure

Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational