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A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
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A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
Regrets are the tears of choices not made
and of good deeds left undone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
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
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
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
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous
I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
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