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> [“The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/the-chinese-philosopher-mencius-believed-that-man-is-innately-good-he/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

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## More by T. Greenwood

> [“People say we are defined by the choices that we make;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/people-say-we-are-defined-by-the-choices-that-we-make/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“This is the thing about a lie: over time, it not only obscures the truth but consumes it. Those who pursue veracity (those dogooders,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/this-is-the-thing-about-a-lie-over-time-it-not-only-obscures-the/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“Time does not heal wounds. It's a body's ritual that does. The instinctual cleansing with rain or other waters, the application of salves. Despite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/time-does-not-heal-wounds-it-s-a-body-s-ritual-that-does-the/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“... I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/i-thought-about-things-stolen-from-me-i-thought-about-the-thieves-i/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/we-lived-among-people-whose-poverty-could-be-seen-in-the-length-of/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“... I'm a half-empty kind of girl.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/i-m-a-half-empty-kind-of-girl/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/the-chinese-philosopher-mencius-believed-that-man-is-innately-good-he/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“And I think about how I used to be the one who fixed things. How I used to be the strong one. When did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/and-i-think-about-how-i-used-to-be-the-one-who-fixed-things-how-i/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“Sometimes things need to get broken”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/sometimes-things-need-to-get-broken/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall. Piper”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/we-pretended-she-d-only-gotten-lost-in-the-colors-of-fall-piper/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/sometimes-i-felt-like-the-mundane-details-of-our-lives-were-the-only/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [The secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/the-secret-to-happiness-is-counting-your-blessings-while-others-are/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“And everything with you is always so, I don't know, fucking heavy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/and-everything-with-you-is-always-so-i-don-t-know-fucking-heavy/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

> [“My mother, stuck in Two Rivers with a head full of unfulfilled dreams, escaped every chance she got via the Two Rivers Free Library…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-greenwood/my-mother-stuck-in-two-rivers-with-a-head-full-of-unfulfilled-dreams/)

[T. Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-greenwood/)

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