"Innocence is a better world."

Morality, Innocence, Purity, Life, Idealism

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Godliness, Spirit, Virtue, Leadership

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Deed, Knowledge, Value

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Humility, Contrast, Behavior

"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Knowledge, Value, Choice

"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Righteousness, Slavery, Sin, God

"Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Morality, Judgment, Devil, Choice

"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Leadership, Justice, Rights, Governance

"The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Morality, Antihero, History, Ethics, Blur

"No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?"

Richelle Mead, American Author

Morality, Goodness, Faith, Judgment

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"The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

Art, Emotion, Confidence, Work

"You can't test courage cautiously."

Courage,

"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."

Society, Birthday, Evolution, Present, Self

"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

Knowledge, Reading, Life, Breath

"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity."

Discipline, Art, Work, Focus

"In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned."

Philosophy, Goodness, Evil, Humanity

"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."

Literature, Will, World, Writer

"Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair."

Work, Belief

"Writing every book, the writer must solve two problems: Can it be done? and, Can I do it? Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."

Creativity, Writing, Determination, Work

"What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue."

Curiosity, Exploration, Observation, Knowledge