#Good person

[aloneinthedark-eagle]

true love starts with effort. 💞

[positivelypositivethoughts]

[kindnotestoself]

Goodness isn't inherent, it is a goal to strive for every day. It's a choice you make over and over. It's a skill you practice at and sometimes you slip up. Don't beat yourself up. You are trying, and that's the important thing. There is not one single person on this planet that is perfect, but there are people out there who decide time and time again to be kind. to be compassionate, open minded, and thoughtful. People that choose to help, not because it benefits themselves, but because it is right. Keep working at being a good person

[blkqueensmatters]

Always 🧡

[classycookiexo]

[flaneuresse]

never stop being a good person because of bad people.

[globalriseofblackpeople]

A lot of y’all aren’t truly good and nice people

[ae-cha08]

[thereadmind]

Charlie Munger 1924 - 2023

[momentsbeforemass]

“If you need religion to be a good person…”

The other day, I did something that I rarely do. I read the comments.

There was one that stood out. It was deeply negative, full of personal attacks and slander (if you’re Catholic clergy, this sort of thing comes with the territory).

What made it stand out was the way that it closed. With what I’m sure the author considered to be a show-stopper – an unanswerable condemnation of both me and religious faith in general.

“If you need religion to be a good person, then you’re not a good person.”

I literally laughed out loud, said (out loud), “you get it!” And laughed some more.

Because that is exactly the point.

I am not a good person.

A quick look past the thin veneer of habit and manners reveals my deeply flawed character. Someone who is at bottom vain, petty, vicious, greedy, condescending, and vengeful.

Left to my own devices, that is exactly who I would be.

It’s not someone I want to be around.

And it’s not someone I want to be.

If you ever wonder why I keep writing and preaching about your interior life, about the Sacraments, about the habits of faith? About becoming who God made you to be? About not letting anything get between you and God?

This is why.

And I know I’m not alone. Because – if we’re honest – none of us are good persons.

I am a Catholic because I am well-aware of who I would be if I were not.

Today’s Readings

[cool-i-hateme]

La diferencia entre lo que quieres ser y lo que eres está en lo que haces. 

Lo leí por ahí.

[sam-serrano]

Te vas a cuestionar mil veces si hay que dejar de ser buena persona, si hay que dejar de darlo todo, si hay que dejar de intentar. Y vas a seguir siendo buena persona, porque el otro es otro y tú eres tú, y al fin, las son acciones las que nos definen, siempre .

[positivelypositivethoughts]

[ummhazim]

"A good heart deserves to be in the hands of a good person"

”القلب الطيب يستحق أن يكون في يد إنسان طيب“.

[everythinkaloud]

Being a ‘good’ person has less to do with the things you do than the spirit with which you live

[fizziepopangel]

"Do You Still Think That I'm A Good Person?"

"I make questionable decisions

and I have a hard time minding my business

and I tend to talk when I should listen...

Do you still think that I'm a good person?"