According to Mahatma Gandhi the purpose of life is to live, act and think in a rightful manner. The soul feels its best when we nurture it with rightfulness.

Fundamental norms, rules, or values that represent what is desirable and positive for a person, group, organization, or community, and help it in determining the rightfulness or wrongfulness of its actions. Principles are more basic than policy and objectives, and are meant to govern both. See also principle

He brought rightfulness to the people in South Africa. He saved the black's from injustice from the whites. He stood up for what he believed and he was prepared to die for his beliefs. He was locked in prison for twenty years and came out to save the blacks and become president of South Africa. H e was a true hero.

candor, charitableness, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, disinterestedness, due, duty, equitableness, equity, exactitude, fair shake, fair-mindedness, give and take, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, justness, legitimacy, moderation, open-mindedness, propriety, rationality, reasonableness, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity

Power refers to the ability to influence or control others, authority is the rightful power to make decisions and enforce rules, legitimacy is the perceived rightfulness of those in power, and sovereignty is the supreme authority within a territory. Power can be exercised through authority, which gains legitimacy when it is seen as rightful, and sovereignty establishes the ultimate power within a state.