Goodness Quotes
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better."
"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."
"You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not."
"I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!"
"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!"
"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"
"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]"
"Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody."
"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one."
"But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
"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."
"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."
"God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true."
"If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect."
"A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive."
"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?"
"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first."
"I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness."
"Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. There's both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? Concentrate on the good."
"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."
"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."
"In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on."
"It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
"In the beginning..when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out."
"Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go."
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."
"That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire."
"Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love."
"it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be.nor as bad as i think i need to be.i think you have the same doubts that your goodness was not rewarded"
"But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever."
"Don't try to follow trends. Create them."
"The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become."
"The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence."
"Oh, but I was an idiot. Wanting to be whatever magic she waited for, when I had no magic - only darkness or death to give. But it seemed in that one instant, when she turned to discover what was behind her, that I could have brought happiness to at least one mortal. Me and my dreams of goodness. I had always been a fool for them."
"Dua kebaikan yang berbeda tidak mungkin berada pada satu intensitas yang sama. Sesederhana itu."
"Evil surrounding can destroy a Good soul."
"People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless."
"Store good words in your heart, and you will be always and everywhere finding yourself to be in goodness. Loyalty and kindness will always be with you. Paint your good words in the blue canvas of day, and in the starry canvas of night. In this way, you will always be with reminding yourself of goodness. Place your trust in the beauty of your words. Grow and culture in your understanding of beauty and love. The path of beauty and love always welcomes you to come walk it."
"Good things don't happen to "good people"; good things happen to happy people."
"How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?"
"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."
"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.]"
"Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people."
"Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people."
"I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind."
"Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death."
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