Good Things Quotes - Page 7

• It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Heart, Break, Ifs

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• How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide and deny it. You—you never hid your feelings. Looking back, it was clear and plain, and yet I never saw it. I was astonished when Tessa told me that you were engaged. You’ve always been the source in my life of such good things, James. I never thought you would be the source of pain, and so, wrongly, I never thought of your feelings at all. And that is why I was so blind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Feelings, Would Be

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

  Jim Butcher

  Wall, Way, Easy

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• Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Dream, Crazy, Imagination

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• If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Long, Mets, Ifs

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• Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

  A. A. Milne

  Clever, Silly, Book

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

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• Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?

  Roland Barthes

  Love Is, Lasts, Kind

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Mind, Trying

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• You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never enough of you all together in one place, so t here wouldn't be anything left that would think of itself as an 'I.' No point of view any longer, because you'd be an infinite sequence of views and of points.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Views, Long

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• There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Different, Tape, World

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.53, St. Martin's Griffin

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• All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

  Khaled Hosseini

  Things In Life, Lost, Fragile

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• At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn't told him nearly enough.

  Kristin Cashore

  Done, Lasts, Enough

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.230, Penguin

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.

  Matthew Quick

  Strong, School, Ideas

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• My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.

  Tracey Emin

  New Year, Successful, Night

  Tracey Emin (2013). “Strangeland”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Laura won’t hurt you,” I said, wrestling him for control. “She’s one of the sweetest ghosts I ever met. She just likes to play.” “Yeah, I bet. With my bones, if I had any!” “She isn’t like that!” “Sure. ’Cause when the innocent little girl shows up in a horror flick, it’s always a good thing!

  Karen Chance

  Girl, Hurt, Wrestling

  Karen Chance (2013). “Tempt the Stars: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Might, Said, Happens

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

  Stephen King

  Worry, Dying, Young

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Bravery

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.66, Penguin

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• The good things take care of themselves.
  We want to find all the negatives.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Inspirational, Business, Challenges

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• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Happiness, Laughter, Flower

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• A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

  Mitch Albom

  Depression, Morning, Self

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

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• A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Food, Desire

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.701, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Forgiveness, Maturity, Generosity

  "Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris, p. 21, 2013.

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