An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of. . . a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.
Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.
We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.
. . . we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.