Scriptures The Goodness Quotes & Sayings

Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception; within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy. — Steve Maraboli

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action. — Aaron Burr

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. — Helen Rowland

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly. — Darin Strauss

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go. — Michelle Shocked

True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Jesus did not come as a servant in spite of the fact that he is God; he came precisely because of the fact that he is God. — John Ortberg

On a Bare Hill's Top...

On a bare hill's top, in the North, wild and cold,
A lone pine-tree somewhere stands;
She dozes, swaying, all covered by snow
With a mantel from feet to a head.

She sees in her dreams: in a faraway desert,
In lands where the sun enters skies,
Alone and sad, on a rock's sunburnt lather,
A beautiful palm-tree abides. — Mikhail Lermontov

No matter what might ever happen to me, you are not allowed to hurt yourself! — Stephenie Meyer

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it. — Steve Maraboli

Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it. — Elena Ferrante

Scriptures exhorted men to shun evil and become good - which seems to be an impossible task - since as soon as we try to add goodness in us, evil too gets added in us without our effort - almost automatically. — Awdhesh Singh

It seems that sin is geographical. — Bertrand Russell

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic. — Sasha Frere-Jones

Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate. — Halton Arp

In the hands of blood-sucking monsters a scripture becomes a weapon that takes away humanism from the heart of humans and fills them with hate, rage and selfishness, whereas, in the hands of modern human beings the same scripture can become the greatest philosophical tool to endow the species with goodness and compassion. — Abhijit Naskar