Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us.
People have goodness in their hearts.
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
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