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Quotes About Goodness

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
~ Maxim Gorky
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.
~ Richard Bach
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
~ Cheryl Strayed
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
~ Desmond Tutu
I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I'm not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.
~ Abdullah ibn Mubarak
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
~ Basil Hume
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.
~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.
~ Rod Dreher
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
~ Brennan Manning
I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.
~ Joe Flanigan
I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.
~ Walter Russell
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
~ Meister Eckhart
Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.
~ Mira Grant
Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.
~ John Wesley
Satan can never be as evil as our God is good. His mercy is limitless. His love is limitless!
~ Karen Wheaton
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.
~ Katy Perry
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
~ Aristotle
You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.
~ Esther Hicks