Goodness Quotes
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism. All major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.
Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.
The civilized classes and nations are swept away by the grand rush for contemptible wealth. Never was the world worldlier, never was it emptier of love and goodness.
If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.
Situations can change; people can change. Be the first to seek to bring good. Do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it with good.
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