Basic Goodness Quotes

#1. Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Jack Kornfield

#2. our confidence is not in the solidity of Western culture or the basic goodness of modern democracy. Our confidence is in Jesus and him alone.

N. T. Wright

#3. Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have.

Pema Chodron

#4. When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

Sakyong Mipham

#5. There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#6. It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Barbara Walters

#7. There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

Pema Chodron

#8. Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Anne Frank

#9. buddha nature, or basic goodness.

Lodro Rinzler

#10. Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.

Sakyong Mipham

#11. Only basic goodness gives life to technique. To

Stephen R. Covey

#12. Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.

Pema Chodron

#13. He knew he had trusted Wilf against the odds, but somehow he had also trusted that there was a basic goodness to be found in everyone, and that this time he could tap into it.

Rachel Joyce

#14. Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

Zig Ziglar

#15. I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

James Randi

#16. The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

Nathan Myhrvold

#17. An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#18. The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

Pope Francis

#19. The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.

Sakyong Mipham

#20. You were made for me, Eden. Just as I was made for you. We fit. We just fit.

Maya Banks

#21. I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#22. 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 Caletti

#23. Earthly possessions are transient and ephemeral. Giving away love creates ripples that last for some time.

Debasish Mridha

#24. I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Martin Sheen

#25. Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

John Baillie

#26. I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

Jonathan Galassi

#27. Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Pablo Casals