Origen Quotes

Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss The purpose of this life, and do not wait For circumstance to mould or change your fate.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

And you can always, always, give kindness

If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Do good: we will meet one another there.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.