Quotes about Goodness

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.

Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness. Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.

mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love

Love is the ancestor of all spiritual goodness, the essence of the true and the beautiful

The template for happiness is to offer goodness to the world for true happiness is achieved when one gives freely of their heart and soul.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Spirituality is natural goodness.  God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us.  Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

My Soul’s Marriage

A commitment to your own and
the world’s transformation.

For the Benefit of myself and All Beings.

I,            (my ego & personality)

Do solemnly swear
to love, honor and obey my soul,
my path to realization  and
relationship with a higher,
deeper creative power,
for better or worse,
for richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health,
from now and forever more.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Say little, and love much.
Give all.
Judge no man.
Aspire to all that is pure and good.

I am good to people who are good.
I am also good to people who are not good.
Because Virtue is goodness.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

You see there are three steps: witnessing the mind, witnessing others and then witnessing yourself. That is the exact way in which it happens. All of this is transferred from inside to outside and then back to you. A perfect reflection of the mind; this is the main way that you can perfect yourself. It is your duty and responsibility to learn from others. Take what is good from others, and incorporate it within yourself. Take what needs enhancing in others and enhance it within.

There is no greater miracle
Than our conscious efforts
To become good human beings.

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

"The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful"

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

“It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.”

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.