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Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Be open to the goodness of life -
even in the midst of apparent adversity.
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There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
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Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Believe in the laughter of children.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no odor so bad as that
which arises from goodness tainted.
- Henry David Thoreau
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
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You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
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