"The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner."

Morality, Evil, Balance, Conflict

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"The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner."

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"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Character, Endurance, Circumstance, Growth

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Morality, Loyalty, Honor, Bravery, Commitment

"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Morality, Truth, Violence, Life, Death

"I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.....Mockingbirds don't do one thing to but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, don't nest in corncribs,they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Harper Lee, American Novelist

Morality, Compassion, Truth, Observation

"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."

Jesse Helms, American Politician

Morality, Principles, Support

"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

Morality, Integrity, Trust, Truth, Observation

"Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Morality, Balance, Truth, Life

"Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'"

Anne Frank, German Writer

Morality, Conscience, Truth, Strength, Power

"Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness."

Anne Frank, German Writer

Morality, Character, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel? 'Maybe you don't have to move it, Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. 'Maybe you have to climb it."

Alexandra Bracken, American Writer

Morality, Struggle, Metaphor, Effort, Life

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"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"

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"What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred."

Relationship

"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."

Grace

"...up to no good-and pleased about it."

Playfulness

"All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse."

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"Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility."

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"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."

"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."

"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."

"Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good."

"Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'"

"Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness."

"How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel? 'Maybe you don't have to move it, Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. 'Maybe you have to climb it."

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"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished."

"Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you."

"I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive."

"Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing."

"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"

"What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred."

"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."

"...up to no good-and pleased about it."

"All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse."

"Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility."