Quotes About Goodness

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

A truly beautiful person is one who is good at discovering beauty.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

A good deed is the best prayer.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

in the teachings of many other contemplative or mystical traditions, the basic view is that people are fundamentally good and healthy. It's as if everyone who has ever been born has the same birthright, which is enormous potential of warm heart and clear mind. The