#good

I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden #sad

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#sadness #sad

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#desire #good #action

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ↗

— Socrates

#desire #endeavor #gain #good #good reputation

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#cruelty #goodness #character

The last day is way shorter than counting to ten. ↗

— Leena Ahmad Almashat

#goodbye #goodbyes #last #harmony

Ash blinked. "Are you raiding the cellars now, Goodfellow?" "Me? Stealing?" Puck flashed a devious grin and popped another fruit into his mouth. "In the house of my ancient enemy? What gave you that idea?" He plucked another fruit and tossed it to me with a wink. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#goodfellow #meghan-chase #puck #enemy

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#best #broken #fragments #glue #good

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#discouragement #failure #goals #optimism #pessimism

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#good #commitment