You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.
—Charles Martin in Chasing Fireflies
She cried easily. Evidence that she felt much, and most often for other people. A rare and beauty filled gift.
—Charles Martin in Thunder and Rain
More quotations tagged with “good”
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
—Marcus Aurelius
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
—Anna Sewell
There are no miracles. There are no trumpets, no fanfares, no absolutions.But she sees now that there are brief moments of, if not goodness, then kindness: a thoughtful gesture, a friendly word, an absence of anger now and again.
—Christiane Buuck
The most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
—Katherine Anne Porter
I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?
—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere
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