Quotes About Goodness

What're you going to focus on? What's unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you?" Stephen tapped the boy's chest. "The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by

powerful. Three Pines is a state of mind. When we choose tolerance over hate. Kindness over cruelty. Goodness over bullying. When we choose to be hopeful, not cynical. Then we live in Three Pines.

Almost invariably people expected that if you were a good person you shouldn't meet a bad end, that only the deserving are killed. And certainly only the deserving are murdered.

And may your days be good and long upon this earth.

the world is a cruel place, but it's also filled with more goodness than we ever realized. And you know what? Kindness beats cruelty. In the long run. It really does. Believe me.

the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

Anyone could be clever. Anyone could be smart. Anyone could be taught. But not everyone was kind.

The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.

Life can be cruel, as you know. But it can also be kind. Filled with wonders. You need to remember that. You have your own choice to make, Armand. What're you going to focus on? What's unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you? . . . The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.

Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed that light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

The blindness you mention isn't believing in the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

the fact that if we all blow ourselves to smithereens, at least Pepito has existed, and that is good, the fact that it's just plain good he was in the world,

Religion … denies goodness as a quality of human nature; man is wicked, corrupt, incapable of good; … on the other hand, God is only good[.]

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

The only sign of "superiority" I acknowledge in Man is goodness.

Na filosofia de Comte, bem como na de Marx, não há espaço para Deus e sua infinita bondade.

Good people are good people, religion has nothing to do with it.

But my mother also would have been the first to tell me that good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.