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“Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I believe in energies. Good energy has served me well. Being fair with others, compassionate towards them, remaining humble, and making a difference to someone are just a few of the things that I have seen create good energy. Beautiful things. Human things. I do my best to surround myself with these types of things, to generate an atmosphere thick with such energy. It has kept me safe in many situations. I have taken risks in the past, and managed to avoid harm by the protection of the good energy I have created around me. I believe that ugliness creates more ugliness. And no matter how touched by ugliness you are, you do not have to give in to it and start spreading it beyond yourself. I have seen this sickness and what it does to a person, and those around them.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

“Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.”
― Stuart Aken

“I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.”
― Nancy E. Turner, Sarah's Quilt

“By having good memories on every place you just visit,
you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their own good.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

“Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Evil forges a tornado.
But goodness battles in a straight line.”
― Caris Roane

“Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.”
― Pericles

“I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.”
― Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life

“Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”
― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things

“I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
― Marie Curie

“Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..."
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.”
― Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey

“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never be conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man's meaning.
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

“Mithorden: 'He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.'

Luthiel: 'Why?' She choked around her tears.

Mithorden: 'Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races -- for he saw the good in them.”
― Robert Fanney

“As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“We tend to be taken aback by the thought that God could be angry. how can a deity who is perfect and loving ever be angry?...We take pride in our tolerance of the excesses of others. So what is God's problem?... But love detests what destroys the beloved. Real love stands against the deception, the lie, the sin that destroys. Nearly a century ago the theologian E.H. Glifford wrote: 'Human love here offers a true analogy: the more a father loves his son, the more he hates in him the drunkard, the liar, the traitor.'... Anger isn't the opposite of love. Hate is, and the final form of hate is indifference... How can a good God forgive bad people without compromising himself? Does he just play fast and loose with the facts? 'Oh, never mind...boys will be boys'. Try telling that to a survivor of the Cambodian 'killing fields' or to someone who lost an entire family in the Holocaust. No. To be truly good one has to be outraged by evil and implacably hostile to injustice.”
― Rebecca Pippert

“We haven't been too bad, have we?"
"No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

“Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first place. Don't prey on the weak. Don't steal from the helpless. Don't murder the innocent. Be a force for good, not a force for yourself.”
― Dan Abnett, Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

“Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.”
― Maya Angelou

“I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,’â€� he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Love is the opposite of good sense.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

“I was feeling pretty raw about my own species because we presume to draw a distinction between what we call good and what we call evil. We find our images of what we call evil in things outside ourselves, in creatures that know nothing of such matters, so that we can feel revolted by them, and, by contrast, good about ourselves.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.â€�
“We all felt it,� Nick said.
“You may have felt it, but I caused it.� Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. I don’t know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn’t deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it.� Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table.
“What if,� said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, “what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?�
Clarence chuckled at the thought. “I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.�
“But you do think that something changed. . . .�
“I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.�
“What if it’s neither?â€� suggested Nick. “What if we get to make it one or the other?”
― Neal Shusterman, Everfound

“Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living