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Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart. -- Euripides
Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue; -- Aristotle
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else. -- Vernon Howard
Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines. -- Herbert Spencer
I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it. -- Keith Jarrett
Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith. -- Rich Lowry
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. -- John Piper
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. -- Francis Schaeffer
Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. -- Anne McCaffrey
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 that moment the citadel has been surrendered. -- Archibald MacLeish
We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission. -- Dorothy Day
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it. -- Larry Poons
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 of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. -- Felix Dennis
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. -- Ida Tarbell
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. -- Arnold Palmer
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness. -- Charles Kettering
I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy. -- Kate Millett
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness. -- Democritus
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. -- Mary Renault
Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there -- Rumi
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach. -- Edward Weston
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. -- Aaron Copland
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences. -- Dennis Lehane
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. -- Frank Herbert
A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause. -- Poul Anderson
Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking. -- Kim R. Shaffer
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. -- Alfred North Whitehead
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'. -- David Bowie
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false -- Gerhard Richter
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. -- Gerhard Richter
Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness. -- Cheryl Strayed
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
I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should. -- Laurence Yep
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced. -- John Pawson
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision -- Thomas Jefferson
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good. -- Andrew Thomas
...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 believing it. -- Maggie Stiefvater
It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. -- Maggie Stiefvater
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. It would be easy. -- Laini Taylor
My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
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 rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code. -- Carl Jung
When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped. -- Laura Riding
For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious. -- Nick Bantock

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