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- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
- Victoria Holt
- I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.
- Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine
- The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003
- You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
- Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
- Good men must be affectionate men.
- Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)
- The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
- Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
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