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121 " As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator." - Elizabeth's Quotes "
122 " When you smile from within good things come to you from without. Just breathe, your music will come. "
123 " If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. " We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." " That's so," said Pa. " These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em. "
124 " Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
125 " On Tuesday December seventh a lot of good things happened: they took the trach out, took the cast off my leg, and my PT, Maria, had me standing. "
― Amy Rankin , Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
126 " If you see good circumstances around you, you tend to feel good and attract good things to you. If you see negative things around you, you tend to feel bad and likewise attract negative things to yourself. "
― , Total Law of Attraction
127 " To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion "
― Richard J. Foster , Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
128 " That’s why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right? "
― Chuck Wendig , Invasive (Zer0es, #2)
129 " Not all good things come from good people. "
― Toba Beta , Master of Stupidity
130 " Don’taccept good things from bad people. "
131 " He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness. "
― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
132 " Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life. "
― Kathryn Perez , Love and Truth
133 " But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed. "
― John Stuart Mill , On Liberty
134 " A person with negative thoughts can never see the sunshine ( good things ) and feel the warmth ( happiness ) in their heart.. "
135 " I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing. "
― Kevin Breel , Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
136 " If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. "
― C.S. Lewis , The Weight of Glory
137 " Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy. "
― Aristotle
138 " Expect good things from people; they feel it. You never know who you are going to meet, and projecting approachability will open doors of opportunity for you that you may not have discovered otherwise. "
― Susan C. Young , The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact (The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #3)
139 " I wanted a guy who made my stomach flutter, who was polite and respectful to everyone because he didn't think of anybody as beneath him, a man who did good things not because of what he’d gain but simply because it was the right thing to do. I wanted someone that cared about the injustices of the world and tried to help even if the issue didn't affect his life. "
― Skyla Madi , Your Guardian Angel (Guardian Angel, #1)
140 " Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles. "
― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)