#goodness

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

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. ↗

— George Combe

#curious #facts #goodness #illustration #mere

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#beauty #come #create #dust #goodness

Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good. ↗

— Andy Griffith

#goodness #happy #ladies #look #must

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#been #goes #goodness #hair #know

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #goodness #ignorance #the-plague #love

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

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#christianity #christians #devout #devouts #goodness

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#goodness #karma #kindness #respect

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#evil #good #goodness #magnificent #makes