It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We don’t need to be perfect to do good deeds in the world, but we need to be sincere in our efforts.” — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Is raising boys different from raising girls? Oh my goodness, yes! It's a different species, and I love them for that. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
You Don't Have To Pay For The Things That Are Really Valuable, Like Love, Friendship And Good Health... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The fact that we live without God is, in a sense, not up to us. It's not really a choice. . .… — Greg M. Epstein Copy Share Image
To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Life taught me not to trust anyone but I still choose to trust, because I still believe in humanity, I still believe… — Prem Tihan Shafiq Copy Share Image
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The Master has no mind of her own. She works with the mind of the people. She is good to people who… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“When chasing success; Your greatest asset is not what you get from it but who you become because of it.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“Relate to softness of heart like the air that you need to breathe. It’s your living connection to goodness. Open your heart… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're… — Pauline Collins Copy Share Image
Charity is a song learnt by heart, while altruism is a hymn sung from the heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You lead me and keep me from falling. You carry me close to Your heart. And surely Your goodness and mercy will… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
“I think the message of goodness over beauty is a valuable one. I wish the world knew it.” — Alex Flinn Beastly Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is an active decision to turn toward goodness in your thoughts and behavior.” — Gina Simmons Schneider Copy Share Image
“A person’s general goodness is in direct correlation to the force, or quality, of the kind thoughts he or she generates.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Goodness is not its own reward in this world. Those who help are sometimes destroyed first” — Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Copy Share Image
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness. — Kenneth Myers Copy Share Image
“...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense. — Hubert Butler Copy Share Image
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
