Kindness Quotes - Page 25

• Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Years, Trials

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Five: Refiner's Fire". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 285), 1985.

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• All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

  John Wesley

  Joy, Worldly

  John Wesley (1825). “Sermons on several occasions [ed. by T. Jackson].”, p.379

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• Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

  George A. Smith

  Loving Life, Air, Common

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• I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

  Steven Wright

  Food, Moving, Night

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• It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

  William Congreve

  Business, Vices, Poet

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) epistle dedicatory

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• The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

  William Law

  Charity, Merit, Persons

  William Law (1848). “A serious call to a devout and holy life. with an intr. essay by D. Young”, p.95

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• Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

  John Locke

  Errors, Mediocrity, Might

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• I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

  Kenneth Clark

  Hurt, Believe, People

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• If you think there is no action that you can perform
  in your current circumstances that will increase the
  supply of love in the world, you are believing a lie.
  At the very least, you always have the option to offer
  yourself kindness and understanding. That alone
  can increase the supply of love in the world.

  Martha Beck

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  Martha Beck (2008). “The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life”, p.44, Harmony

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• The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

  Amelia Earhart

  Roots, Doe, Random Acts Of Kindness

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• Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

  Virgil

  Overcoming, May, Fortune

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• I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Lovely, Trying

  Christopher Morley (1933). “Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley”

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• To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Hatred, Combat

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• I think people around you should feel like you're always approachable and always open. I mean, kindness - top of the list. And I like people who seem very grounded. That's a lovely quality in a leading player.

  Erin Davie

  Mean, Player, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Curiosity, Library

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Ignorance, Sleep, Cover Ups

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• The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Men

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• What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple

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• Opportunities for kindness are flowing past us continuously, during the hours we spend at home, in the office or store or shop or laboratory where we work, as we walk along the street, as we drive hither and yon, as we travel by train or plane or bus - in short, wherever we are and whatever we are doing.

  David Dunn

  Home, Opportunity, Past

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• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Spontaneous, Values

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 115 (May 1781)

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• It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Good Life, Doors, Friendly

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• Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Remember

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• The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.

  David Dunn

  Giving, Friendly, Glimpse

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