Look within. The good is there, if you keep digging.

Where this comes from

Marcus Aurelius wrote this in his private notebook about 1,850 years ago. He pictured the good in a person as a spring under the ground: it is always there, and it keeps bubbling up as long as you keep digging.

How you could say it to a five-year-old

“That came out mean. The kind you is still in there. Want to go fix it?”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.59. We put these lines into plain English ourselves, staying close to the original and to public-domain translations.