Kinder Quotes - Page 7

• I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned - and more than any of the lessons of my accident, this is the one I wish I could teach everybody - that our hearts matter most. Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others. It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Beautiful, Heart, Perfect

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• People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, People, Technique

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• Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a hundred champion crews. Honesty is not the best policy when leading a bunch of college rowers. They are looking for strong, disciplined leadership and not a kinder, gentler coach. Once you've established a certain attitude and demeanor, it's nearly impossible to change to a difference mode in mid-season.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Strong, Honesty, Attitude

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• Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

  Dorothea Lange

  People, Perspective, Different

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• Be a little kinder than you have to.

  E. Lockhart

  Kindness, Kids, Littles

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Kindness, Intelligent, Mysterious Things

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• If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.

  R. J. Palacio

  Trying, Would Be, World

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• My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.

  Emma Stone

  Hope, Kindness, Women

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview with Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

  Amy Poehler

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

  River Phoenix

  Planets, Cruelty, Creatures

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• Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

  Robert D. Hales

  Beloved, Imagine

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• Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Legacy, Warfare, Force

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I want a kinder, gentler nation.

  George H. W. Bush

  Presidential, Want, Nations

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• God is even kinder than you think.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Thinking

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• One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.

  Mark Haddon

  Prayer, Believe, Fall

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• Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you
  in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor
  to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its
  loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't
  catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

  Judith Martin

  Summer, Cheer, Food

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• According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

  George Saunders

  Graduation, Becoming, Life Is

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.52, A&C Black

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• What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, People, Endurance

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.264, Penguin

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• I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Week, Old Man

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.409, Ageless Reads

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• If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Important

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• Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Relationship, Break Up, Letting Go

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

  Ethan Coen

  Book, Reading, Cutting

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• Let us be kinder to one another.

  Aldous Huxley

  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

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• Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art—inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart— builder of every home—kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Mother, Dream

  "Lectures and Essays (a Selection)".

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• I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

  Bill Bailey

  Disappointment, Surprise, Crave

  "Bill Bailey: Bewilderness", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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