While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.
Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.
To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.
Good things come to those who wait.
Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Mornin', ladies. My goodness, don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
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