Giordano Bruno Quotes

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

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!

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

If you want to be holy, be kind.

The religion of humanity is love.

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.