Goodness Quote by Pema Chodron

“There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.”

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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

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the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root…

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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

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