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• It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Beauty, Truth

  Tags in Discovery, Goodness, Morning

• Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honour, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.

  Richard J. Foster

  Topics in God

  Tags in Worship, Goodness, Heart, Seek

• Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

  Philip Guedalla

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courteous, Goodness, Greatness

• It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good

  Topics in Greek Proverbs

  Tags in Goodness

• You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

  Nadia Comăneci

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Goodness

• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving, Goodness

• Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.

  Michael Jackson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Goodness

• How goodness heightens beauty!

  Milan Kundera

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Goodness

• Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Goodness

• There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Goodness

• Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

  Billy Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spiritual, Goodness

• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Goodness
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  Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Goodness

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  Abu Bakr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Piety, Vilest, Solid, Goodness

• Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vengeance, Banned, Goodness

• Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Magnificent, Serene, Goodness

• No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gentle, Goodness

• No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impotence, Goodness

• Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.

  John Banner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Representative, Goodness

• It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

  Woody Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Waking, Goodness