I Quotes
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“It is good the have a hatch before the durre.”
“It is good theology to love people with bad theology”
Source: Confessions oor kerkwees
“It is good they can still joke and laugh. It offers nothing to the storyteller. But in the face of the inevitable, defiant joy is effort and reward both. It is how to survive, and it is why.”
“It is good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”
“It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.”
“It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.”
“It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.”
“It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”
“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.”
“It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the executive branch. The Supreme Court has even ruled that I am the executive branchhead, heart, and hand.”
Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President
“It is good to be brave, it is better to be good; strive to be both.”
Source: The Dryad
“It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.”
“It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.”
“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.”
Source: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
“It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.”
“It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.”
“It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.”
“It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.”
“It is good to be hurt once in a while..
Means emotions are still alive.. Means you can still love ,give, receive..
Just don't take the hurt too far..!!”
Source: Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core
“It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!”
“It is good to be jealous, if only of yourself. For what you feel you lack, you will show an abundance.”
“It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.”
“It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.”
“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.”
“It is good to be taught even by an enemy”
“It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.”
“It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.”
“It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.”
“It is good to be weird. It is good to be eccentric. It is good to be separate from the crowd. The philosopher John Stuart Mill thought it was almost a civic duty to be eccentric, to break the tyranny of conformity and custom. But even if we don’t feel outwardly eccentric, we all have eccentric parts. Thoughts that crop up on the peripheries of our thinking. Random sparks we can set alight. Thoughts that offer the other point of view or the other side of a political argument. Thoughts that don’t quite fit in with our other thoughts. Tastes that go against our other tastes. And as we grow older it is good to keep tending to those unconventional parts of ourselves—the thoughts that buck the trend—because these are the parts that will keep us new and capable of surprise. They will stop us becoming a cover version of ourselves. They will help us become new songs.”
Source: The Comfort Book
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”
Source: The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays
“It is good to bounce things off a trusted friend.”
Source: Honey Moon Dog Daze
“It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.”
“It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They begin only when you experience them, vanish when others follow.”
Source: On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
“It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.”
Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)
“It is good to dream! After I dream, I envision, and after I envision, I create!”
“It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”
“It is good to enjoy a comfortable life for a while. However, the enjoyment derived from comforts magnifies when it follows stress. When you are tired with the hard work of the day, you get better sleep at night.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.”
“It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.”
“It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.”
“It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.”
“It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.”
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.”
“It is good to have friends at court.”
Source: Essays of Elia