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“We live in a world filled with hate and hurt, these are dark times, but there is still love and light if you look for it. Everyone you know is capable of being both good and bad. And one man’s right is another man’s wrong. We have built a society that places far too much importance on a phony idea of beauty and perfection. The world is full of people behaving like clones, all trying to look, sound, and be the same. Too busy constantly comparing themselves to each other on tiny screens to see the bigger picture. I’ve accepted that I can’t change the world, but I do believe that uniqueness is something to be celebrated, not feared or frowned upon. Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learn to live with both sides of that same coin and see the light in the darkness.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Socrates: What subject of difference would make us angry and
hostile to each other if we were unable to come to a decision? Perhaps
you do not have an answer ready, but examine as I tell you whether d
these subjects are the just and the unjust, the beautiful and the ugly,
the good and the bad. Are these not the subjects of difference about
which, when we are unable to come to a satisfactory decision, you and
I and other men become hostile to each other whenever we do?”
― Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

“She grins. “Just like that, honey. That’s how life works. We die a million times to get to who we’re supposed to be. I’m not who I was—that woman is long gone. She picked a bad man and chose a bad way to get out. She was desperate. And I told Dondi everything. I’m never going to shrink down for someone else again—the good or bad parts. Hide them or pretend they aren’t there, even if they make me feel ugly.” She looks at me, emotion filling her eyes as her voice cracks. “You know what he says when he introduces me to his friends? He says, ‘This is my girlfriend Wanda, she’s the bravest woman I’ve ever known.’” Tears line her spider-legged lashes.”
― Ashley Manley, Now to Forever

“The writing life is brutal on a wounded mind. It really is. So much time spent alone. So much time spent in self-reflection. Emotional wounds heal in other people’s hearts but you have to reopen yours and examine them in order to re-create their painful feelings on the page. Ugly, twisted, vicious thoughts flitter through other people’s minds, but you have to seize yours and hold them to the light in order to understand the soul’s shadowy corners. You have to shred your comfortable pieties. You have to tear your illusions to feathers and rags. When you’re working well, you become bad company, inward-turning, querulous, obsessed. There are plenty of harder jobs, I know. Homemakers, soldiers, cops, firemen, laborers—they all put in tougher days than writers do. But the writing life, so help me, could drive even a sane man crazy. If you’re half crazy already, as I was, it will drive you completely out of your mind. It”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“the past is long gone, but sometimes it is a whisper in the wind reminding me that it helped me be who i am today. the good and the bad. the ugly and afraid. the past is not here to haunt it is here to remind me that i made it through the times i thought i never would escape.”
― Jennae Cecelia, healing for no one but me

“Mothers are there for you on the good, bad, and ugly days. If you’re lucky, your mother is the person in your world who believes in you the most. Mothers are also the people who humble you. They pay for the sneakers. They make the meals. They dry the tears. They kick you in the pants. They shine a light so you don’t trip. They catch you when you do.”
― Dawn Staley, Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three

“Lesley got to her feet and that’s how we found ourselves recreating the stand-off scene from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, only wetter, closer together, and in central London.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping

“She claimed my good and my bad, my light and my dark. She took my broken, ugly bits and molded them into something worthy of display. She turned my agony into art.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world—its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian & The Faith of a Rationalist

“Maggie, with deepening color, went without hesitation to Mr. Riley’s elbow and looked over the book, eagerly seizing one corner, and tossing back her mane, while she said — “Oh, I’ll tell you what that means. It’s a dreadful picture, isn’t it? But I can’t help looking at it. That old woman in the water’s a witch — they’ve put her in to find out whether she’s a witch or no; and if she swims she’s a witch, and if she’s drowned — and killed, you know — she’s innocent, and not a witch, but only a poor silly old woman. But what good would it do her then, you know, when she was drowned? Only, I suppose, she’d go to heaven, and God would make it up to her. And this dreadful blacksmith with his arms akimbo, laughing — oh, isn’t he ugly? — I’ll tell you what he is. He’s the Devil really“ (here Maggie’s voice became louder and more emphatic), “and not a right blacksmith; for the Devil takes the shape of wicked men, and walks about and sets people doing wicked things, and he’s oftener in the shape of a bad man than any other, because, you know, if people saw he was the Devil, and he roared at ’em, they’d run away, and he couldn’t make ’em do what he pleased.”
― Charles William Eliot, The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

“So the big day finally arrives, you are set to enter the ring as a judge for the first time. You have refreshed your memory by re-reading the breed Standard, watching the breed video until you can hum the theme by heart, and studying an Illustrated Standard. You know all you need to know about the idiosyncrasies of the breed, where the breed is strong, and where improvement is needed.”
― Chris Walkowicz, Dog Show Judging - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

“I want to call on people with mental disorders to challenge the status quo and speak up about all the things that contaminate your lives. Accept that mental illness is a part of you (not a defining part), a part of you that you don’t have to hide. Embrace it. Don’t be ashamed that your reality looks different from those of others. Remember, regardless of your gender, age, race, religion, work title, or any other sociodemographic determinant, it’s okay to have a meltdown, crumble, crack, and shatter into a million pieces. You are only human. You are well within your rights to express the true extent of the things you are experiencing. Don’t cover up parts of yourself you think are socially undesirable or culturally inappropriate. Own each and every inch of your being; the good, the bad, and the ugly. Be unapologetically you. Let the judgers judge you, let the haters hate you, let the critics critique you, but let no one silence you. Let us help normalize mental health discussions.”
― K.J. Redelinghuys, Unfiltered: Grappling with Mental Illness

“Cuts from Ennio Morricone like “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” “Theme from A Fistful of Dollars,” “L’estasi dell’oro (The Ecstasy of Gold),” “La resa dei conti (For a Few Dollars More)”; Elmer Bernstein’s “The Magnificent Seven Theme,” “The Journey,” and “Calvera’s Return”; and Jerome Moross’s “Theme from The Big Country.” Big, wonderful, rousing, swelling, sweeping, triumphalist music from another era. It was music that simply wasn’t made anymore. The pieces were about tough (but fair) men under big skies on horseback, their women waiting for them at home, and bad guys—usually Mexicans—to be vanquished.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“The Most High power of Creation behaves much like a mirror. What you get from the mirror is what you put in front of it, good/bad, beauty/ugliness, positivity/negativity, Love/hate, judgment/acceptance. What are you putting in front of the mirror of Creation?”
― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

“Baby, I see you.  I see you talking about trust, and saving the Four Kingdoms, and all-for-one-ing it with the rest of these idiots, when you should be figuring out a way to save your own cute little ass.  It’s so erotically Good, I feel like you’re just torturing me with how adorable you are.”
― Cassandra Gannon, Wicked Ugly Bad

“We do not become greedy by seeking the ugly; we do not seek power to make things ugly. Books comprising myths can thus prevent us from seeing that it is our own greed for nice things that can be, for others, a source of injustice and vengeance. By constantly creating these false good/beautiful, bad/ugly distinctions, we are able to turn a blind eye to our own destructiveness, because we think that we are pursuing the pleasant, the beautiful and the good. The compassionate point is to focus on what is common to all of us – which is the struggle we have within our own evolved brains and minds with so many competing urges and feelings. We can open our eyes to the ease with which we can become deluded and not see the realities we are creating around us – through no fault of our own.”
― Paul A. Gilbert, The Compassionate Mind

“Who can let me be me,” I said to Aidric. “Who can accept who and what I am—the good and the bad. The ugly too. Who isn’t scared of me, and who isn’t afraid to take me on. I don’t intimidate Remi any more than I intimidate this table. He trusts me, trusts me with his heart and his body. You have no idea how I treasure that.”
Remi took my hand. “Sexy fucker.”
“Hot bastard,” I shot right back.
Aidric lifted his head and shook it at us. “That edge of violence might work for you two, but not for me.”
“Hold up,” Remi demanded. “It’s not violence, Aidric. Come on, man, stop being so damn stuffy and open your mind some. We happen to both be very toppy. This works for us.”
“I… I didn’t mean to insult you. I just….”
“Don’t like change,” Dolf finished for Aidric. “You never have.”
Aidric scrubbed his hands over his face. “I always assumed my mate would be another werecat. Someone who was quiet and composed—”
“Restrained, stoic, and prudish,” Brier interrupted. “Dull.”
“Wow, thanks for making me sound boring. Appreciate it,” Aidric snapped. “The thing is I’m not. You don’t know anything about me and what I like. It just so happens I like to be… cautious.”
Remi rested his chin on his hand. “Okay, you’re right. But that’s how you come across. As far as me not knowing anything about you? You’re right, I don’t. Whose fault is that?”
Aidric sighed. “Mine”
― M.A. Church, It Takes Two to Tango

“Nothing lasts forever, the good the bad and the ugly, nothing is permanent. So be impermanent. Be like water and flow with the ups and downs of life.”
― L.J Vanier

“the basic reason of violence is the attachment to extreme ideas. In general, it happens when someone gets confused with what is good and bad, ugly and beautiful, and moral and immoral.”
― Dale Chang, Buddhism: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Integrate Buddhism into your Life (A Buddhist’s Approach to Inner Peace, and Focus)