#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

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

Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good. ↗

— Andy Griffith

#goodness #happy #ladies #look #must

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ↗

— Frank Harris

#capital #christian #churches #crowning #degraded

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#country #either #freedom #freedom of speech #god

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#humorous #service #humor

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. ↗

— David Grayson

#flash #glows #goodness

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. ↗

— Francis H. Bradley

#goodness #life #life

Life wants each of us to live on the 'A Team' -       Wider, ever more intense Acceptance of good in our lives.       Wider, ever more intense Awareness of good in our lives.       Wider, ever more intense Action for good in our lives. www.upwardjoy.com ↗

— Laura Teresa Marquez

#action #awareness #good #goodness #intensity

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#away #beings #enough #giving #goodness