“The best is the enemy of good.”
“I still believed he d love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”
“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”
“Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective”
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
“There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.”
“A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.”
“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
“The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth.”
“There s no rule that says you have to be a prodigy to be a hero, she insisted. If people wanted to stand up for themselves or protect their loved ones or do what they believe in their hearts is the right thing to do, then they would do it. If they wanted to be heroic, they would find ways to be heroic, even without supernatural powers.”
“There isn’t a good side and a bad side of you or of anybody, so there’s no need to be at war with yourself or anyone or anything at all. All we are is a bunch of dozy people in the process of waking up. All we really need to do is try gently to be open to continuing that process. It’s no good getting worked up about stuff – it’s better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on.”
“When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“People aren t born good or bad. Maybe they re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..”
“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
“..the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”