Emmanuel Rosario

28 Uplifting Quotes That Will Remind You Of The Goodness In Humanity

For the days when the weight of the world feels like too much to bear. 
Heidi Priebe
June 13, 2016
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
— Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
Tagged: Life, Fear
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto
“Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: People, Change, Love
“Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.”
— Prince, Unknown
Tagged: Singers, Living well, Compassion
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
— Angela Davis, Talk At Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Tagged: Transformation, Change, Reform, Oppression, Overcoming Oppression, Idealism, ENFP, INFP
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Life, Hope, Crisis, Crises, Change, Overcoming Challenges, Pain
“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Good, Evil, Morality, Mankind
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Tragedy, Pain, Suffering, Overcoming Pain, Moving On
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Tagged: Love, Change, Idealism, Hate, Inspirational
“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant fuckups — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open hand, to try to bring the light back in to illuminate the darkness.”
— Cody Gohl, We Will Hurt Each Other
Tagged: Relationships, Pain, Trust, Disappointment, Morality, Good People, Bad People
“In the end, I want my heart to be covered in stretch marks.”
— Andrea Gibson, Tumblr Poetry
Tagged: Love, Growth, Personal Growth, Growing Through Love, Poetry
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Heartbreak, Broken Heart, Failed Attempt, Love, Relationships, Relationships & Dating
“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Goodness, Virtue, Vices, Heaven, Hell, Morality
“Only a hard heart shatters. Only a hard heart breaks.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Relationships, Heartbreak
“People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving.”
— Miranda July, No One
Tagged: Love, Loving People, Relationships, Friendship
“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”
— Garrison Keillor, We Are Still Married
Tagged: Vanity, Goodness, gentleness, humanity
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
— Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
Tagged: Love, Patience, Understanding, Idealism, Making Change
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
— Iain Thomas, Fur
Tagged: Pain, Love, Choosing Love, Compassion, strength, Hatred
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough.”
— Lemony Snicket, The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13)
Tagged: Life, The World, humanity, Good, Evil
“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Tragedy, Pain, humanity, Safety
“I like to sit at the airport. I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Love, Reuniting, Happiness, Joy, humanity
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
— David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (Bioneers)
Tagged: Peace, Love, humanity, Success, Compassion
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
— Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
Tagged: Compassion, Love, Empathy, Empath, Pain, strength
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Life, Love, Taking Risks, Emotion, Betrayal
“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”
— Ellen Degeneres, Ellen DeGeneres I Stand For Honesty Equality Kindness Compassion
Tagged: Love, Compassion, LGBQT, Pride, kindness, Values
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
— Arundhati Roy, War Talk
Tagged: Peace, Art, Love, Compassion