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• Goodness: Possessing or displaying moral virtue.  Oxford Dictionary
• Good: Having the required qualities; of a high standard. Oxford Dictionary
• Goodness:  The personal quality of being morally good. Cambridge Dictionary
• Goodness: Moral excellence; virtue.  Dictionary,com
• Goodness: Kindly feeling; kindness; generosity. Dictionary,com
• Goodness: The best part of anything; essence; strength. Dictionary,com
• Right action,  Kindness,  Generosity,  Morality and ethics,  Virtue,  Purity,  Honesty

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Do good and you do the world a great deal of good

• Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is instantly available.  By continuously practicing good will we cultivate a deep subconscious habit of good will.  It becomes a pattern of our response in all situations. Good will works as silently as the sun and with as much power.  It thaws the ice and snow of resistance and indifference.  It warms and wins human hearts.  It draws forth the best in others as flowers are drawn from the soil. It stimulates growth.  Wilferd A. Peterson
• No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Alan Alda
• A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. Bhumibol Adulyadej
• I’m not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one’s efforts. I’m not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it’s the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them. Daniel Handler

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Do good and you also do a great deal of good for yourself …

• Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. Jeremy Taylor
• Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. William Penn
• Goodwill to others. . . helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape.  It is the real elixir of life.  Prentice Mulford
• He that does good to another does good also to himself. Seneca
• How good life is when one does something good and just! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. Michel de Montaigne
• To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too. Barbara Ward
• Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state. Socrates
• Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good. R. Miller
• Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. Christian Nevell Bovee

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… for you sow what you reap…

• Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life’s latest sands are its sands of gold! Julia C.R. Dorr
• I’m coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn’t just evaporate and disappear.  Desmond Tutu
• Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. James Allen
• In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. Flora Edwards
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… and goodness creates happiness

• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke
• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – – are always attained by giving them to someone else.  Peyton Conway March
• Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.  Maurice Maeterlinck
• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. Maurice Maeterlinck
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. George Linnaeus Banks
• Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well-being. Debbie Macomber
• Dedication to goodness–dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint– was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness. Sylvia Boorstein
• She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good. Carolyn Kizer
• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of others, but from doing something worthwhile. Sir Wilfred Grenfell
• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. Walter Savage Londor
• Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy. Buddha
• Do good and feel good. Do bad and feel bad.  It’s that simple.
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Doing good brings a clear and peaceful conscience

• There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience. A resolutely wicked soul may perhaps arm itself with some assurance, but it cannot provide itself with this contentment and satisfaction. . . .  These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail.  Michel de Montaigne
• There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. French Proverb
• Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his conscience and get its approval, without knowing force of specious knowledge, then he begins to know what real Happiness is. William G. Jordan
• One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts–once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness– simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. George Sand
• Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. Chinese Proverb
• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. Joseph Addison
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Doing good is a lasting investment that never dies

• Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau
• Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. Louisa May Alcott
• Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. Madame de Stael
• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle

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There is no true greatness where there is not also goodness

• It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great person who was not at the same time truly virtuous. Benjamin Franklin
• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy
• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. Athenaeus
• Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. Matthew Henry
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Good always prevails in the end

• This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word. . . that is what has upheld the morale of our people, to know that in the end good will prevail. Desmond Tutu
• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it– always. Mahatma Gandhi

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True goodness is about deeds, not intentions …

• Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley
• Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. Terry Pratchett
• It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good. Greek proverb
• Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. Buddha
• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
• To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task. Sophocles
• Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below.
• The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention. Proverb
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… for it is your deeds that determine who you are

• Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot
• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot
• Every action alters the soul of the doer. Oswald Spengler
• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey
• Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson

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True goodness is about doing what is right …

• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius
• Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody. Justin Cronin
• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela
• With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best. Zig Ziglar
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… especially when no one is watching you or forcing you

• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. Mikhail Bakunin
• Do the thing that is right even when the boss isn’t looking, because the boss isn’t a criterion – the real boss is standing alongside you every moment of your life. Alfred P. Haake
• Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching. Jim Stovall
• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato
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True goodness focuses on doing good for others

• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one’s self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.  The heart that goes out of itself gets large and full of joy.  This is the great secret of the inner life.  We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.  Horace Mann
• It is not enough merely to exist. It’s not enough to say, “I’m earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I’m a good father, husband, churchgoer.” That’s all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. Albert Schweitzer
• He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.  Confucius
• We are here on earth to do good for others What the others are here for, I don’t know. W H Auden
• While I crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can, in my narrow domestic spheres, to my fellow creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do. Lord Chesterfield
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You become good by doing good

• Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. Stephen King
• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley
• Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Henry David Thoreau

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True goodness never hurts or harms others

• Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover, refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone’s disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives. Norman Vincent Peale
• Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. Mahatma Gandhi

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True goodness is not flashy or intentionally conspicuous

• And when we come to think of it, goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. It is deep, quiet, and very simple. It passes not with oratory, it is commonly foreign to riches, nor does it often sit in the places of the mighty: but may be felt in the touch of a friendly hand or the look of a kindly eye. David Grayson
• Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward things we are. To be good is the great thing. Edwin Hubbell Chapin
• The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb
• The work of an unknown good person is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener. Thomas Carlyle
• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Alexander Pope
• Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. Charles Dickens

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True goodness is pure in intention

• Goodness has to come from the heart; that’s one thing I know for sure. I also know for sure that not everything that comes from my heart is goodness, and that’s something I’m working on.  Goodness has to be pure in intention, and I know that my good acts aren’t always intended solely for the good of the recipients.  I’m working on that, too.  When I truly do good, there’s a very good chance that no one ever will notice it, and I’ll never be recognized as someone who has done something good.  When I can live with that and be at peace with it, I know that I’ll have reached a very high level of living.  Tom Walsh
• The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. Jan Van Ruysbroeck
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True goodness does not seek praise or reward

• When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward–as fools do–praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return. Marcus Aurelius

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True goodness is wise

• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. Robert A. Heinlein
• Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan
• In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. Euripides
• It is from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. Maurice Maeterlinck
• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. William Dean Howells
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True goodness concerns itself with the action, not the fruit of the action

• It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. Mahatma Gandhi
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Here are more measures of goodness

• True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Milan Kundera
• I think we can’t go ’round measuring our goodness by what we don’t do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we’ve got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include. Hugh O’Conor
• To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt
• He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. Confucius
• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others… In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right. Gordon B. Hinckley

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Goodness comes from love and kindness

• Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plough, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good. James Hamilton
• Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. Saul Bellow
• That best portion of good people’s lives, their little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth
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Goodness comes from forgiveness

• The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. Catherine Ponder
• If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. Nelson Mandela
• Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Billy Graham
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Goodness comes from a reverence for life

• By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world… By practicing reverence for life, we become good, deep, and alive. Albert Schweitzer
• The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. George Eliot
• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world — that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me — is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.   Albert Schweitzer
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Goodness comes from belonging

• When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity. The sense of belonging keeps you in balance amidst the inner and outer immensities. The ancient and eternal values of human life – truth, unity, goodness, justice, beauty, and love are all statements of belonging; they are also the secret intention and dream of human longing. John O’Donohue

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Goodness comes from ethical behaviour

• Give in to goodness now and then. I don’t mean masochistic self-sacrifice.  I mean the deliberate performance of an act that has ethical value: helping someone in need, righting a wrong, forgiving an enemy.  For best results, the act should be one that can’t possibly benefit you. . . .  if we give in to goodness once in a while, we gain strength. If we consistently refuse, we’re at cross- purposes with everything, including our deepest nature.  People not only have the capacity for ethical behavior, they have a built-in need for it.  If you give in to goodness reasonably often, you won’t have to seek self- renewal.  It will come to you.  Arthur Gordon
• Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass- produced. Aldous Huxley
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Goodness comes from virtue

• Virtue sounds lofty, but it’s actually down to earth. It simply means living from your innate goodness, guided by principle. When you are virtuous no matter what other people do, their behavior is not controlling you. Rick Hanson
• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. Seneca
• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. William Shakespeare
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Goodness comes from raising your level of consciousness

• Trying to become a good or better human being sounds like a commendable and high-minded thing to do, yet it is an endeavor you cannot ultimately succeed in unless there is a shift in consciousness. This is because it is still part of the same dysfunction, a more subtle and rarified form of self-enhancement, of desire for more and a strengthening of one’s conceptual identity, one’s self- image. You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
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Don’t wait to do good

• Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. Marcus Aurelius
• I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Stephan Grellet
• Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius

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Let your religion be doing good

• True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein
• Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. Elbert Hubbard
• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
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Do good in the small, ordinary, everyday things

• Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. Jean Paul Richter
• Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu
• If one is to do good one must do it in the minute particulars. General good is the plea of the hypocrite, the flatterer and the scoundrel. William Blake
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The great challenge is to keep doing good and turn it into a habit

• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. Aristotle
• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. Ali Ibn-Abi- Talib
• Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end. Joan Chittister
• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. Ralph W. Sockman
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Think and reflect on goodness

• Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. John Jay Chapman
• Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. Paramahansa Yogananda
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Believe in the inherent goodness in the world

• Salvation is seeing that the universe is good and becoming a part of that goodness. Arthur G. Clutton-Brock
• Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine. Gehles
• Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness of life. Charlene Costanzo
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Appreciate, respect and celebrate goodness wherever you find it

• You should also appreciate the goodness around you and surround yourself with positive people. Nadia Comaneci
• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. William Cobbett
• No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. Bertolt Brecht
• Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let be free and unashamed. William Saroyan
• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. The Dalai Lama
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Realise there is inherent goodness in you

• You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you. Eckhart Tolle
• Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. Marcus Aurelius
• When you learn to embrace yourself with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light that is in you and gradually you will realize that you are worthy of respect from yourself. John O’Donohue
• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good. Pablo Casals
• Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God’s Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty. Ernest Holmes

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See the goodness in you, and you’ll see more goodness in the world around you

• “Why is everyone here so happy except me?” “Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere,” said the Master. “Why don’t I see goodness and beauty everywhere?” “Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.” Anthony De Mello

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Have the courage to act on the inherent goodness inside you

• The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated. A person can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.  Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness.  If we listen to it and act on it, we are giving a great deal of what the world needs most.  It is not complicated but it takes courage.  It takes courage for a person to listen to his or her own goodness and act on it.  Do we dare to be ourselves?  This is the question that counts.  Pablo Casals

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Believe that people are inherently good at heart

• I believe that even bad people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank
• Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. Saint Vincent de Paul
• I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank
• Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.  There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward. Mencius
• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody – it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling
• Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There’s an inherent goodness in most people. Don’t pre- judge people – that was me Mam’s advice anyway.   Sean Bean

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Help others to see that goodness in themselves

• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli
• Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness. Michel de Montaigne
• To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person, we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves. John Gray

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Seeing the goodness in others helps you see it in yourself

• Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness. Michel de Montaigne

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Often beauty and goodness are spoken about in the same breath

• How goodness heightens beauty! Milan Kundera
• Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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However, realise that goodness and beauty are not always the same

• I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same. Daniel Nayeri
• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy
• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. Northrop Frye

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Goodness stands out all the greater in bad times

• And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more … Banana Yoshimoto
• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Garrison Keillor
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Sometimes good can spoil and become bad

• As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. Christopher Dawso
• It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Margaret Mead
• There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. Henry David Thoreau
• No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. Mandell Creighton
• The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot
• Badness is only spoiled goodness. S. Lewis

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You don’t have to be an angel to be good

• A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint. Albert Schweitzer
• Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. Eric Hoffer

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Goodness and God

• All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God. John Henry Newman
• Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. Cicero
• True revolutionaries are like God – they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Goodness and evil

• Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. Tyron Edwards
• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. Charles Baudelaire
• Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. Simone Weil
• In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing. Deirdre Sullivan
• It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Margaret Mead
• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. Mahatma Gandhi
• Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts. Tibetan Proverb
• Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. Mary Baker Eddy
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Goodness and nature

• All good things are wild, and free. Henry David Thoreau
• Nothing leads to good that is not natural. Friedrich von Schiller
• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. Seneca
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• There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. Woody Allen
• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde
• When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. Mae West
• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle- class respectability. Oscar Wilde
• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. Henry David Thoreau
• Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. Mae West
• When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. Mae West
• I used to be snow white, but I drifted. Mae West

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