When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.”
“We all felt it,” Nick said.
“You may have felt it, but I caused it.” Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. I don’t know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn’t deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it.” Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table.
“What if,” said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, “what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?”
Clarence chuckled at the thought. “I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.”
“But you do think that something changed. . . .”
“I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.”
“What if it’s neither?” suggested Nick. “What if we get to make it one or the other?
Tags: change hope good guilt bad
See yourself as you really are.
Accept the good and the bad.
Only then can you truly share yourself with another.
If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: wisdom morality morals goodness good christian right right-and-wrong catholic good-advice good-and-evil catholic-author righteous right-thing gadfly wisdom-inspirational thoughts-on-life doing-the-right-thing good-example
Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse
Connor George SerbinTags: motivational inspirational good motivation
Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: good
It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
Skip CoryellTags: easy people home night good wrong kill kids you something unpleasant
There's more to people than some defined label," said Arcie. "There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance, pride, society, morals, animosity, preference, values, religion, circumstance, humor, perversity, honor, vengeance, jealousy, frustration...hundreds o' factors, from the past and in every present moment, as decides what some one person'll do in an individious situation.
Eve ForwardTags: morality evil good good-vs-evil
Sometimes there's other reason for helping, other than personal gain or benefit," added Sam softly. "Friendship, companionship, trust and love are not confined to light alone...they are harder won, fewer seen...but no less real.
Eve ForwardTags: morality evil good good-vs-evil
Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.
Umberto EcoSome are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.
Umera AhmedTags: pain spiritual good islam sword peer-e-kamil
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