Rightness Quotes

70 Rightness quotes by 64 unique authors

Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness — Eugene Gendlin
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at… — Archibald MacLeish
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness… — Felix Dennis
I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello… — Shel Silverstein
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve… — Thomas Merton
Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his… — Carl Jung
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. — Mary Renault
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the… — Susan Sontag
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect… — Carl Jung
I can see in your eyes that thereâ€™s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those… — Clive Barker
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences. — Dennis Lehane
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and… — Harlan Ellison
Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpartâ€”had a mate. A rightness. Sheâ€™d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief… — Nora Roberts
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing… — Jonathan Franzen
Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when… — Deb Caletti
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. — Frank Herbert
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your… — Rob Bell
In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it.… — Laini Taylor
...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and… — Maggie Stiefvater

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