Goodness quotations

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◆ He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

- Jeanne DuPrau99

◆ When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

- Jim Henson99

◆ Be good and you will be lonesome.

- Mark Twain99

◆ 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 Aurelius99

◆ 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 Schopenhauer99

◆ This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

- Martin Luther99

◆ 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 Alcott99

◆ Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

- Cassandra Clare99

◆ 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 Cronin99

◆ The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

- Deb Caletti99

◆ Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ No matter how good of a woman you are,you will never be good enough to a man who isn't ready.

- Muz Mafuwane99