Quotes About Goodness

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

There is little good in people. Little good" [...] "Yet it can be found. All the more precious for its rarity

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Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

And it is this merry heart, he goes on to explain, and how it must be cantered in God, for this merry heart has a holy lightness that has nothing to do with outside excitements, no, it is centred in God and happy, because it knows that not all of itself can be good, or anything, but only in and through God.

Your father is healed," Othman said softly. "No more pain for him, no more illness. I have done this. Can't you see, my pretty boy, how good I am? I don't wish you harm, any of you. I love you all.

Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

goodness is ours to dispense. It's a currency that each of us gets to invent and denominate. David's had pictures of Chopin and Keith Richards on it. Mine had my dog.

Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta," Mithan said. "It means good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.

We all share the same Earth Mother, regardless of race or country of origin, so let us learn the ways of love, peace and harmony, and seek the good paths in life. It is good to have spoken. SUN BEAR

No one stays good in this world.

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.

Be good. It'll be a new experience.

Oh, child, there's no explainin' the meanness in this world." Armetta shakes her head, wipes wetness off her cheek, then cradles my hands in her palms. "But there's goodness here, too. You can't never lose sight of that, hold on to it. It's the goodness that gets us through.

Societal good comes first for me.

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

I was always a Brandon Walsh kind of gal. The good guy, the class president. He just seemed like a really solid guy.

We don't need wings to be angelsWe don't need reasons to be rightYour love makes us all betterThat who we really areAngels and heroes at heart

I wasn't as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.What happened?Everything ends. And it's how they end that leaves the lasting effect.

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn't know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.