All Quotes By Tag: Goodness
“善良是敬虔的。”
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“La bondad es divinidad”
“La bonté est la piété.”
“The thing you have to understand is that being a good person isn’t about singing hymns, or praying to some mystical, god. It isn’t about wearing a cross or going to church every Sunday. Being a good person is about how you treat others. A good person doesn’t need a religion, because they are content within themselves that they are doing the right thing.”
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“Conquer your fear with the weapon of good heartedness.”
“In choosing a mate, don’t pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don’t choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.”
“As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39)”
“Sometimes the nicest people are the ones who’ve been hurt the most”
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“Good intentions do not always suffice.”
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“Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”
“For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.”
“The law or any practice that is not for the good of the people must be changed.”
“A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.”
“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
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“I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.”
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