If you look for the bad in your life you will find some, but if you look for the good you will find it everywhere.
Always remember those things that you are proud of, because they will support you in difficult times and give you a restart.
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?
If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.
The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people.
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Heβd never really given religion much thought himself. It was just there, one of the basic fundamentals of life and living; Heaven is generally good and one should aspire to end up there, and Hell is decidedly foul and one should generally direct their enemies there.
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
Only when you can see the good, can you have courage.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
What gets you to improve is your decision to put the pluses there - you put the good there.
The human being desirous of success and strength should perform spiritual or good working continuously.
The line between greatness and insanity is very thin, James. Many great people actually cross over it more than once.
All love is good, and all love leads to the same place.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Despite what you may believe, you can disappoint people and still be good enough. You can make mistakes and still be capable and talented. You can let people down and still be worthwhile and deserving of love. Everyone has disappointed someone they care about. Everyone messes up, lets people down, and makes mistakes. Not because weβre inadequate or fundamentally inept, but because weβre imperfect and fundamentally human. Expecting anything different is setting yourself up for failure.
Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse
No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you⦠to be a better man.
