Quotes About Goodness

People didn't get what they deserved, you couldn't hold off bad luck by being good, you couldn't say you earned your good luck. You just got what you got, and did the best you could, and tried not to be afraid of what might happen next.

It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known only in loss. To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain." Holding

After tonight, there will still be bad things going on all over the world. There will still be Vietnam. There will still be all kinds of bad things. Even in my own house. But you and the other astronauts, tonight you give us hope that miracles can happen and things can get better and we can all come together to want the same good thing. You give us hope. Sleep tight Michael Collins.

This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us we'd be better off with pleasure in hell than sanctification in heaven.

Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.

There is goodness in the world, Marcus, and kindness. You cannot forget that." Goodness? Kindness?

Continue to focus on what is beautiful and good, even while the whole world appears to be falling apart all around you.

?yilik, yola dü?en, yoldan toplanan bir ?ey de?ildir. Tesadüfen ele geçen bir ?ey de de?ildir. ?nsan iyili?i ancak ba?ka bir insandan ö?renir.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Hepimiz kötü ÅŸeyler düÅŸünürüz, ama pek seyrek kötülük yapabiliriz. Hepimiz iyi ÅŸeyler yapabiliriz, ama iyi ÅŸeyler düÅŸünebilenlerimiz pek azd?r.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Sacred outlook is not only about thinking everything is good; it is the absence of imprisonment. You begin to experience freedom that is intrinsically good, almost unconditionally free. So the vajra world you are entering is basically good, unconditionally free, fundamentally glorious and splendid.

The basis for the practice of meditation is appreciation. Every breath we take is a gift, naturally pure and good. We appreciate every pebble in the riverbed, every apple on the tree. Ordinary activities are in themselves powerful and worth appreciating.

A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.

But how "good" are we, really? If we're so good, why do we inspire such hatred abroad? What have we done to bring so much "blowback" upon ourselves?

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.