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Good
actions are the invisible
hinges on the doors of heaven.
Victor Hugo
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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
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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
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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
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It is within my power either to
serve God, or not to serve him. Serving him I add to my own good and the good of the whole
world. Not serving him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the
world of that good, which was in my power to create.
Lev Tolstoy
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead
of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are
still yours.
Marcus Aurelius
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Conquer a person who never gives by gifts;
Subdue untruthful people by truthfulness;
Vanquish an angry person by gentleness;
And overcome the evil person by goodness.
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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.
unattributed
(often attributed to John Wesley)
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We ought to do good to others as
simply and as naturally
as a horse runs, or a bee makes
honey, or a vine bears grapes
season after season without
thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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The refuge from
pessimism is the
good men and women
at any time
existing
in the world,
--they keep
faith and happiness alive.
Charles E. Norton
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Know
all the good that individuals find,
Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in these three words--
Health, Peace, and Competence.
Alexander Pope
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The
greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action
by
stealth and to have it found out by accident.
Charles
Lamb
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of
others
cannot keep it from themselves.
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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 |
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Conviction is worthless unless
it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
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That best portion of
good people's lives,
Their little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth |
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Real joy comes not
from ease or riches
or from the praise
of others,
but from
doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell |
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Waste no
more time arguing what
a good person should be. Be one.
Marcus
Aurelius
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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.
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Morality has been
conceived up to the
present in a very narrow
spirit, as
obedience to a law, as inner struggle
between opposite
laws. As for me, I declare
that when I do good I obey no
one, I
fight
no battle and win no victory. The cultivated
person has
only to follow the delicious incline
of his
or her inner
impulses.
Be beautiful
and then do at each moment whatever
your heart
may inspire you to do. This is
the
whole of morality.
Ernest
Renan
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If you
believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits
apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends
unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because
you believe in the sovereignty of God.
Henry T. Hamblin |
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If you
have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act,
you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.
A. Neilen |
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Do things for others
and you'll find you self-consciousness
evaporating like
morning dew.
Dale Carnegie
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Sow good services; sweet
remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael |
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Goodwill is the mightiest practical
force in the universe.
Charles F. Dole |
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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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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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Riches
and power are but gifts of blind fate,
whereas goodness
is the result of one's own merits.
Heloise
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Those
who wait to do a great deal of good at once will never do
anything.
Life is made up of little things. True greatness
consists in
being great in the little things.
Samuel
Johnson
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Goodness
consists not in the outward things we do, but in
the inward thing we are. To be good is the great thing.
Edwin H. Chapin
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It is very
difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular
situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of
good
can come about, is to let the ego play God--and that,
as you know, can and does backfire.
Neem Karoli Baba
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Goodness
Knows
Goodness knows that
sometimes the greatest thing
in the world is a smile from a
child,
So Goodness laughs a lot.
Goodness knows that
it's easier to break a child than to mend one,
So Goodness handles with care.
Goodness knows that
everyone deserves a second chance,
And sometimes a third and fourth chance, too.
Goodness knows that we
all need friends in this world,
So Goodness is determined to be friendly.
Goodness knows that
only people count,
So Goodness never counts out people.
Goodness knows that
life is sometimes lonely,
But we are never alone.
And when the sorrows
of life are left unexplained,
it's still not too much to bear,
For we can trust that Goodness knows.
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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
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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
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Doing
good for others is not a duty. It is a joy,
for it increases your own health and happiness.
Zoroaster
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Other blessings may be taken away,
but if we have acquired a good
friend by goodness, we have a blessing which
improves in value when others fail.
William Ellery Channing
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At a simple level, good is that
which helps people--evil is that
which hurts people. At a higher level, good is that which is in
harmony with divine purpose--evil is that which is
out of harmony with divine purpose.
Peace Pilgrim
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I
have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should
be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in
the
right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.
Meister Eckhart
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The
power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten
thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent
power. It
moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show
of open
opposition. It uses no methods of effort through
tongue or arm or
physical force.
Prentice Mulford
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Always remember, we all have our own opinions and beliefs.
We have different ways of dealing with life’s troubles and joys.
To survive our differences without hurting each other is what
Goodness is all about.
Dodinsky
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