Kind Quotes - Page 27

• I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Forever, Today

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• I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Baby, Hero, Hard Work

  Suzanne Brockmann (2003). “The Unsung Hero”, p.393, Ballantine Books

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• It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Teeth, Annoying

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.123, Random House

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• I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Heart, Mind, Wish

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press

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• We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Exercise, Thinking

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• ...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

  Cameron Dokey

  Blindness, Worst, Unkind

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say: "There - now God will feel better!" I am obliged to tell you that God does not need anything you have. He does not need a dime of your money. It is your own spiritual welfare at stake in such matters as these. You have the right to keep what you have all to yourself - but it will rust and decay, and ultimately ruin you.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Feel Better, Thinking

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• It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

  E. M. Forster

  Distance, Gentleman, Ears

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Dog, Sleep, Simple

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.

  Gayle Forman

  School, Romance, Forever

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.58, Penguin

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• Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

  James A. Owen

  Make Things Happen, Persons, Happens

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• But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Summer, Crazy, Merit

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sydney, this is the kind of shirt that says, ‘You’re never getting in here.

  Richelle Mead

  Shirts, Sydney

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• Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.289, Random House

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• love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

  Tracie Peterson

  Giving Up, Believe, Heart

  Tracie Peterson (2010). “Twilight's Serenade (Song of Alaska Book #3)”, p.159, Bethany House

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• If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

  Roland Barthes

  People, Understanding, Problem

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• Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Safe Haven, Men, Lucky

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• You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Goddess, Grass, Don't Change

  "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you? Thank you. You are very kind.

  Meg Cabot

  Love You, Men, Appropriate

  Meg Cabot (2015). “The Princess Diaries”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vegas, Wrong Number, Numbers

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• Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

  Haruki Murakami

  War, Thinking, Japan

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. 2002.

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• What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Compassion, Imagination, Three

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• I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

  Roald Dahl

  Kindness, Simple, Thinking

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• In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Cute, Girl, Teenage

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• Last night we told you that none of the angels remember where we landed when we fell," Daniel said. "Yeah, about that... How's it possible?" Shelby said. "You'd think that kind of thing would leave an impression on the old memorizer." Cam's face reddened. "You try falling for nine days through multiple dimensions and trillions of miles, landing on your face, breaking your wings, rolling around concussed for who knows how long, wandering the desert for decades looking for any clue as to who or what or where you are - then talk to me about the old memorizer.

  Lauren Kate

  Fall, Angel, Night

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