Quotes About Innate Goodness

#1. Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie. Sol

Dan Simmons

#2. The critic had added a personal note: Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie.

Dan Simmons

#3. I was raised to believe in the innate goodness of humanity, developed a deep sense of the dignity of the individual human being, and had great appreciation for the miracle of life and our existence on this earth.

George Lee Butler

#4. I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

Brian Behlendorf

#5. We can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another ... we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.

Katrina Kenison

#6. The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.

Donald Kuspit

#7. To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

John Gray

#8. The truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

Alanis Morissette

#9. Giving and empathy provide us with opportunities to nurture our innate goodness.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#10. Fortunately, Luke's unwavering faith in his father's innate goodness had proved to be a stronger force than the power of the dark side.

Ryder Windham

#11. He called you pretty ... That's practically an insult, the way you
look right now ... You're much more than beautiful.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. She was pleased her demure stature was finally good for something. It was an advantage at last. A boon. An asset. A virtue - She stopped herself from continuing her synonym spiral. There was work to do.

Cynthia Hand

#13. There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember, the United States would fit in Africa three times over and there would still be space. That's how big Africa is.

Patrick Bergin

#14. So. Are you guys here to convert me or sell me siding?

Richelle Mead

#15. It's good to be with someone whom I can "understand" but it's greater to be with someone whom I can 'feel

Hiroko Sakai

#16. We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.

Chuck Klosterman

#17. Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Jerry Hall

#18. According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

James Fallows

#19. Celebrating Christmas without Christ is like celebrating George Washington's birthday without mentioning the first president.

James N. Watkins

#20. Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

Mario Cuomo

#21. I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

Rachel Kushner

#22. No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence ... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.

Thomas Huxley

#23. Don't just fly, soar.

Walt Disney Company

#24. They still didn't talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.)

Rainbow Rowell

#25. One person's data is another person's noise.

K.C. Cole

#26. Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

Sakyong Mipham