I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
“He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The good is twice described in the Philebus as perfect, self- sufficient and seeked by all conscious beings. And the good does… — Plato Copy Share Image
In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire;… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If I go to the coffee shop and have a nice interaction with the barista, I don't know what that does for… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and… — Herbert Newton Casson Copy Share Image
Apathy is dead. Show them the face of evil - Satanists lurking among us - running our governments, our banks, our schools,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet… — Sudhir Kakar Copy Share Image
“It was almost as if he had become, in his inveterate goodness, a little bit of a simpleton as is bound to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If you do something good, a question box will open for its authenticity, but people will believe something bad about you without… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs,… — Al Jardine Copy Share Image
It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Never have I seen a world without evil, but never have I either seen a world without good. Light and dark balanced,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think you need to think of yourself as a flawed human being with aspirations for goodness and never start to think,… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
Our task is to stand tall in God's love, secure in our place, sparkling in kindness, surrounded by his goodness, freely giving… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
