It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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