Goodness Quotes
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
I really believe in the goodness of Canadians. The idea that everyone should be given an equal opportunity to succeed in this country and particularly for children.
No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.
Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.
Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.
God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself
Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.
The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.
Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised