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• Believe in all the good things you keep inside
  There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

  Jeremy Enigk

  Freedom, Believe, Mind

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• LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

  George MacDonald

  God, Teaching, Men

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.13137, e-artnow

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• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  Walter Benjamin

  Happiness, Beauty, Ideas

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.239, Harvard University Press

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• For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

  Plautus

  Hope, Disappointed, Expected

  "Rudens" by Plautus, II. 3. 69; Mostellaria, Act I, scene 3, line 71, 211 BC.

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• We learned how to love each other by loving together
  good things wholly outside each other.

  Donald Hall

  Marriage, Together, How To Love

  Donald Hall (1997). “The Old Life”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

  Woody Allen

  Money, Children, Order

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• To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Music, Creativity, Truth Is

  Giuseppe Verdi, Hans Busch (1988). “Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in letters and documents”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Science, People

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Thankful, Gratitude, Attitude

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.38, e-artnow

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• One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

  George MacDonald

  Anniversary, Marriage, Years

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.8795, e-artnow

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• I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Courage, Two

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• One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

  Lee Marvin

  People, Interesting, Getting Older

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• When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

  Percy Sledge

  Love, Men, Mind

  "Billy Crystal And Josh Gad: Separated By A Generation But United By Laughs". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 15, 2015.

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• So to have peace, the best way to put your mind right is to think of good things. Think of the flowers, not of the thorns. What good things others have done to you, what good things there are, what are the beautiful moments you have had, and count your blessings . Count your blessings, otherwise you cannot create peace.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Adversity, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

  Jane Austen

  Beer, World, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.190, Mondial

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• Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

  Melody Beattie

  Self Esteem, Past, Self Respect

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

  Herman Melville

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  "The Complete Works of Herman Melville".

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• Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Please Me, Matter

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• Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Character, Reality

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Attitude, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Thinking, Giving

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• That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Nature, Spring, Animal

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.410, e-artnow

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• If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.

  Giorgio Armani

  Change, Fashion, Ideas

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• The only good thing about playing in Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

  Richie Scheinblum

  Baseball, Cleveland, Road Trip

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