People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
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Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
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.
We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
People have goodness in their hearts.
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
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