Just knowing how much gasoline is being saved by all the people sitting on the bus instead of driving in their cars makes them feel good.
Reminded me of The Velveteen Rabbit who thought that his master loved him
It’s between the narrator and the protagonist who is a prisoner of forced labor in a soviet and shektakov another prisoner
The suffix is -ness and it indicates a quality or condition of the root word. In this instance, it would have the quality of quiet.