#goodness

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#courage #darkness-and-light #good-and-evil #goodness #inspiration

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse. ↗

— Iain Pears

#goodness #dreams

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#good #good-advice #good-and-evil #good-example #goodness

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#love #love

ينبغي ألا نندم على حبٍ أو احساس عشناهُ يومًا بكل الصدق، فسوفَ تكشفُ لنا الأيامُ أن ما بقى داخلنا من مشاعر الحب كان أجمل و أبقى مما في أعماقِ انسانٍ تخلّى عنا او غدرَ بنا، لأن الذي يصنعُ الفضيلة لا يندمُ عليها، والذي يرسمُ خطوطَ الجمال لا يعنيه أبدًا أن يرسم غيره أشكالَ القبح. ↗

— فاروق جويدة

#honesty #love #love

Knowing the Techniques of Survival........ Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting others and preventing us from seeing who surrounds us. Getting focused to the things that matter are the Key to what has to be to COMPLETE our MISSION. "I Had Every Excuse to Fail but I Chose None" Speak Life!!! (sky) ↗

— Sebastian K. Young

#focus #goodness #inspirational #love #sadness

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

#goodness #nature

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#goodness #religion #religion

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

#happiness #purity #righteous #respect

Be nice. Be good. Be happy. If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there'd be few problems left in the world to fret about. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #kindness #richelle #richelle-goodrich #richelle-goodrich