Goodness Quotes - Page 5

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person’s lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

Eventually you are answerable to yourself for your deeds. Be good and do good!

Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.

That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails.

This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the surest and nearest signs of the unceasing activity of our soul, this invisible and divine goodness ennobles, in decisive fashion, all that it has unconsciously touched.

Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind.

Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.

Love is the most beautiful flower in the garden of life.

If i am asked 'what is good? my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I am asked 'How is good to be defined?' my answer is that it cannot be defined, and that is all I have to say about it

The gospel opens our heart to the goodness of God,

Greatness isn't worldly fame and success. Laying humble service for humanity's best is true greatness.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Goodwill is the goodness of grace.

She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.

God wants to rescue us, not destroy us. You don't have to be afraid of being happy, thinking that he wants to take that happiness away from you That's not who he is." "How can you be sure?" "Because when you've had a taste of goodness, it helps you recognize the difference between good and evil. I believe that people like Grace and St. Francis and a whole host of other kind, loving people show us what God is like. He isn't waiting to punish you and he doesn't give you blessings just to strip them away.

You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.

Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!

Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.

Be compassionate with all people.

The Excellence Manifesto #2I will resist impatience.I will resist deceitfulness.I will resist bitterness.I will resist ignorance.I will resist foolishness.I will resist pridefulness.I will resist unrighteousness.I will conquer laziness.I will subdue indifference.I will beat incompetence.I will defeat averageness.I will overcome fearfulness.I will transcend weakness.I will quash unproductiveness.

Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.

Pearls from the soul are more precious than diamonds from the mine.

but is it not heartening to know that so many are willing to fight for the good? Think of that young librarian, Sophie, who made certain you escaped. Think of S.Q., who risked my brother’s wrath to make me more comfortable. Think of Captain Noland, and Joe Shooter, and all the others – even strangers – who were prepared to sacrifice their safety, perhaps even their lives, on our behalf. That’s something, is it not?

O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is his ears. And as you sleep, your heart and soul rest naked before him. He can drink from the rivers of your thoughts, and even feel the wetness of your tears.

An eternal life is a life that one lives according to his or her decree to ultimately be a fine human being, agreeing with the concept of goodness, foreseeing the dangers ahead either by prophesies or by anticipation and to serve our Heavenly Father unselfishly.

...all "months" work together for the good of those who love the Lord! ...all the days of this month will work together for your goodness!

Be the sun in someone’s dark sky.

You are capable of great deeds.

Do the Good to Bad then Bad will do Good to you

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

The sun announces its presence with light, not words; do likewise.

It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you.

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty.

But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.

There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.

By lighting another’s candle you brighten your own.

What you give today you get tomorrow.

Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it.

Be good to those who are good,and just to those who are not;this is true wisdom.Do good unto others,not expecting them to do good unto you.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

...it’s so awesome to be Human; we have His ability to feel, we can choose what we want to see based on our feelings… and when we choose to see the goodness around us, we amplify it and increase it to its never-ending limits...

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes. And where men worship these things and abase themselves before them, there evil breeds; there places are made in the world where darkness gathers, places given over wholly to the Ones whom we call Nameless, the ancient and holy Powers of the Earth before the Light, the powers of the dark, of ruin, of madness.

In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.

I don’t believe in a god, not in the traditional sense anyway. I guess that’s what being raised Catholic has done to me. But I do believe in energy. I do believe in right and wrong. I do believe in kindness and truth.

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.