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Quotes About Goodness

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
~ Anne Frank
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
~ Anne Frank
Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!
~ Anne Frank
I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.
~ Anne Frank
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
~ Anne Frank
I lie in bed at night, after ending my prayers with the words 'Ich danke dir für all das Gute und Liebe und Schöne' (Thank you, God, for all that is good and dear and beautiful)
~ Anne Frank
Realizar una cosa fácil no demanda ningún esfuerzo. Hay que practicar el bien y trabajar para merecer la dicha, y no se llega a ella a través de la especulación y la pereza. La pereza seduce, el trabajo satisface.
~ Anne Frank
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
~ Anne Frank
As Eva grew older, she did a lot of good things for those around her. At the age of sixteen (four years after meeting the elf), she was generally acknowledged to be a friendly, gentle and helpful girl. Every time she did something good, she felt happy and warm inside, and she gradually came to understand what the elf had meant by "the song in her heart.
~ Anne Frank
happiness, a cheerful disposition and strength. Every day I feel myself maturing, I feel liberation drawing near, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me. Every day I think what a fascinating and amusing adventure this is! With all that, why should I despair?
~ Anne Frank
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People
~ Anne Frank
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
~ Anne Frank
Ich danke dir für all das Gute und Liebe und Schöne.
~ Anne Frank
Muß ich ein guter Mensch werden, ohne Vorbilder und ohne Reden, damit ich später besonders stark werde. (S.74)
~ Anne Frank
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
~ Anne Frank
In spite of everything I still believe that people r really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, death & misery. I c the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions & yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, & that peace & tranquility will return again.
~ Anne Frank
Be pure in heart,, be pure in mind!
~ Anne Frank
Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.
~ Anne Lamott
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
~ Anne Lamott
I mean "God" as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.
~ Anne Lamott
We have to make ourselves available to one another, or we can't experience goodness. It's not so much us seeking God, tracking Her down with a butterfly net; it's agreeing to be found. The Old Girl reaches out to everyone and wants to include us in this beautiful, weird, sometimes anguished life. All people: go figure.
~ Anne Lamott
Love and goodness and the world's beauty and humanity are the reasons we have hope.
~ Anne Lamott
Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.
~ Anne Lamott
Goodness and courage are how the divine presents itself so often—whether in drag, as close friends, or as EMTs.
~ Anne Lamott