Kindness Quotes - Page 27

• Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping Others, Love Is, Suspicion

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• There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Believe, Heart, Light

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• If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Land, Be Kind

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• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Soul

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• As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Distance, Destiny

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  The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Errors

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• What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Joy, Wish

  Eulogy for Ted Kennedy, delivered 29 August 2009

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• Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is no feeling of brotherhood among these people. Indeed, they always resent it when I call them brother. To show how far their ungenerosity can carry them, I will state that I offered to let Prof. H--y publish my great theory as his own discovery; I even begged him to do it; I even proposed to print it myself as his theory. Instead of thanking me, he said that if I tried to fasten that theory on him he would sue me for slander.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Discovery, People

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• Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those he met, fostering an atmosphere of compassion, harmony, and unity. Sri Chinmoy was a leader, humanitarian, artist, athlete, and public servant who will be sorely missed. His legacy of kindness, reflection, and resolve will endure for many years to come.

  William J. Clinton

  Athlete, Compassion, Artist

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• There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my children and more fully enjoy them as they're growing up and vice versa. And so, each of those has a day's journey. There are 40 days that people will go through in applying these biblical principles for their kids. We spell them out in layman's terms so it's really easy to grasp a principle.

  Alex Kendrick

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now

  Greg Epstein

  Next, Life After Death, Offers

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• For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Loneliness, Worry, Needs

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

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• I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

  Sophia Loren

  Real, Grief, Heart

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• They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

  Ben Hecht

  Heart, Fighting, Laughing

  "Nothing Sacred", 1937.

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• Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Creative, Together

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• We lump together all things that are beyond the capacity of all of us collectively to understand-and one name we give to all those things together is God. Therefore, God is the creative force, the sustaining power, that which motivates toward constant change, the overall intelligence which governs the universe by physical and spiritual law, truth, love, goodness, kindness, beauty, the ever-present, all-pervading essence or spirit, which binds everything in the universe together and gives to everything in the universe.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Law, Essence

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.140, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome.  Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Compassion, Yield, Greed

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• Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Remember, Goodness

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• The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Heart, Forever, Stranger

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• In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it . . . the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it . . . must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow.

  Laurence Olivier

  Beautiful, Stars, Generosity

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• We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Judging People, Forgiving

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.

  Jack Welch

  Children, College, Thinking

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• I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

  James Stewart

  Two, Giving, Everyday

  "Fictional character:". "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciation, Fundamentals, Natural

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• The world exists for the sake of kindness.

  Rashi

  World, Sake

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