Goodness Quotes - Page 15

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.

Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.

Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also learn from the poor and those that failed woefully, for in their failures lies the secret of success as well.

Great deeds, great blessings.

The seed of good reaps the harvest of goodness.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Don't get mad, William," he finally said, provoking the distraught to look up at him, "I know it's hard, an' unfair, but you can't let yourself become angry. You're too nice, - too good, - if you can't at least hope for a possibility, then what happiness can you expect to have? You have to hold on to it, or else you've got nothing..." (77)

We all want to look good, but genuine goodness is in the heart.

Knowing the Techniques of Survival........Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting others and preventing us from seeing who surrounds us. Getting focused to the things that matter are the Key to what has to be to COMPLETE our MISSION. "I Had Every Excuse to Fail but I Chose None" Speak Life!!!(sky)

If you are ever in doubt about which way you should travel, make a choice that contains the essence of goodness and love and then go in that direction. This way, you can have absolute faith that you made the right decision.

In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

If you have power, be just; wealth, be generous; knowledge, be wise; titles, be humble; and life, be grateful.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

It is good people who make good places.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Feeling tired of your four walls?Jesus commanded us to "GO", not sit! (Mark 16:15) Just saying!

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Some things are too good to be true and truly are good and true.

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

​Oh God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man's creaturely power and goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incar​​nate.

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39)

The problem in today's world is that people do not believe (lack trust) in goodness.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.