#goodness

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#dream #family #god #goodness #i

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#being #better #comforted #existence #gentle

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

Thank goodness I've saved my money. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#i #money #saved #thank #thank goodness

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#attention #awareness #beauty #compassion #creativity

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#goodness #greatness #means

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. ↗

— George Combe

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More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#access #ago #different #even #find

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#beauty #come #create #dust #goodness