Kind Quotes - Page 29

• It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

  Rachel Vincent

  Self, Addiction, Destructive

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Stray”, p.305, MIRA

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• It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

  Emily Giffin

  Kindness, Empathy, Missing

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• To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

  Rob Bell

  Quality, Vitality, Connections

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• We’re days away from going full scale against Malone, and in the meantime, we’re under fire from above. And I’m about as useful as a three-legged dog.” “You’re much more useful than any kind of dog, mi vida.” Marc purred and pressed me into the counter, his hands on my hips. I couldn’t resist a smile. I was a real sucker for Spanish.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dog, Real, Fire

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• And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stars, Distance, Unity

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, People, Perception

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.157, Penguin

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• Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.

  Francine Rivers

  Doe, Lasts, Faces

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• Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

  Jim Butcher

  Imagination, Magic, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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• Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

  John Green

  Mom, Teenager, Fake

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.214, Penguin

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• It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Smart

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.28, Penguin

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• she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wanted, Knows

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• In his own country, Death can be kind.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Be Kind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

  Thomas Mann

  Running, Fashion, Art

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• It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Running, Animal, Self

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• I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Moving, Men

  William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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• I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

  Lucy Christopher

  People, Red, Heat

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• why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)

  Charles Bukowski

  Stupid, Night, Two

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.

  Anais Nin

  Blood, Voice, Ears

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• The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Queens, Stupid, Moving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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• That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Goal, Lord, Made

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.47, Macmillan

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• In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible.

  Julian Barnes

  Waiting, Firsts, Would Be

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• More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.

  Matt Chandler

  Stars, Fire, Dust

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• I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy." Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. "You're uglier." "I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on." "I didn't really want you to go," Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart. "I know.

  Nora Roberts

  Attitude, Heart, Long

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Chesapeake Bay Saga 1-4”, p.226, Penguin

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• She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.

  Jojo Moyes

  Laughing, Conspiracy, Spokes

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