Be Kind Quotes - Page 26

• There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Kindness, God Bless You

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 27, 2014

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• For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

  David Copperfield

  Kindness, Father, Winning

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• It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

  Jenny Holzer

  Kind

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

  Pierre de Marivaux

  Kindness, World, Enough

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• This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Loyalty, Gratitude

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• Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive to the individual man - whether he's a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands, or a waiter in a restaurant. Let's begin with respect, compassion, and love for the individual - or we'll never get anywhere.

  Vasily Grossman

  Men, Compassion, Islands

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.267, Random House

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• Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.

  William Zinsser

  Kind

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• I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

  Maya Angelou

  Practice, Important, Virtue

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Inspirational, Kindness, Two

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• Be  kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind.

  Yoko Ono

  Mind, Kind, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Mar 05, 2012

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• At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

  Charles Baxter

  People, Pet, Talent

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.62, Vintage

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• Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you needwhen you can say, 'Thou, O Christ, art all I want.' But listen, be careful: it may strip you of everything else you have; you may lose some of your best friends who think you're fanatical; they don't mind you being kind or good, but you become holy and zealous

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Art, Thinking, Joy

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• We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.

  Frederick Buechner

  God, Darkness, Green

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• You can't exceed the system with language.  You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better.  You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate...  You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind.  And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur.  In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Events

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• Compassionate the mountains rise
  Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
  That, having looked on life time out of mind,
  Know that the simple gift of being kind
  Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.

  DuBose Heyward

  Wise, Kindness, Eye

  DuBose Heyward (1924). “Skylines and Horizons”

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• How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Wings, Bird, Relief

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Simple, Kind

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• Something similar happens on the other side of the equation: Giving kindness does us as much good as receiving it. . . . The true benefit of kindness is being kind. Perhaps more than any other factor, kindness gives meaning and value to our life, raises us above our troubles and our battles, and makes us feel good about ourselves.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Kindness, Giving, Feel Good

  Piero Ferrucci (2007). “The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life”, p.23, Penguin

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• Sometimes, very quietly and graciously, you can inspire other people by showing them that there's a different way and many perceptions of beauty. You may not be feeling it inside, but if you display it like you mean it, then it can give permission to be kind to ourselves and embrace our individuality.

  Erin O'Connor

  Mean, Perception Of Beauty, People

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• Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Judging, Would Be, Generations

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• I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Dream, Self, Expression

  "Lauren Greenfield, Director of ‘The Queen of Versailles’". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 27, 2012.

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• The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they can say please and thank you like everyone else. Real monsters can appear to be kind. Sometimes they can be inside us.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Life, Real, Thinking

  Jodi Lynn Anderson (2014). “The Moment Collector”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.

  Alex Prager

  Color, Looks, Way

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, Clever, Grandfather

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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