Goodness Quotes - Page 12

• Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Notion, Deprived

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• It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Honesty, Results, Honorable

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• Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Trying, Three Things

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• One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Solitude, Mind

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• All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Men, Compassion

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• When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Religious, Peace, Brother

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• If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eagles, Order, Justice

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• At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

  Sue Thoele

  Love, Hurt, Heart

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• God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

  Julian of Norwich

  Sight

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

  Julian of Norwich

  Done, Deeds, Sin

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

  H. E Davey

  Genuine, Postponement

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• Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

  Anna Friel

  Children, Men, Vanity

  Source: collider.com

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• How can you go wrong with two people in love? Goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Love is love, and there will never be too much.

  Fiona Apple

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

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• All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality.

  Assata Shakur

  Healing, Reality, Medicine

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• I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Book, Ifs And

  Source: www.bookclubforum.co.uk

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• Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Heart, Joy

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• God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Badness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Men, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1085, Manonmani Publishers

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• God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  Knowledge, Perfect, People

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• I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.

  Sarah Dessen

  Beach, Writing, Motherhood

  "Goodreads YA Interview - Sarah Dessen". Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. May 2015.

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• You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hard Times, Evil, Hard

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!

  Irina Tweedie

  Vegetarian, Sometimes, Terrible

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably because I was adopted and thus have always tended to cavalierly dismiss the importance of "blood ties" and any inherited or "unearned" group characteristics.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Blood, Ties, Groups

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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