Kindness Quotes - Page 28

• So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Humility, Play, Parent

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• I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.

  Torquil Campbell

  Dog, Thinking, Vanity

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• To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

  John James Audubon

  Evil, Forever, Taught

  John James Audubon (1969). “Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings”

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• A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

  Ambrose

  Hands, Should

  Saint Ambrose, Aeterna Press (2016). “On the Duties of the Clergy”, p.53, Aeterna Press

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• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  Ambrose

  Land, Rude, Cain

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• I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

  John James Audubon

  Thinking, Errors, Apparel

  John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.97

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Eye, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.341, Library of America

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• Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that.

  Russell Banks

  Home, Snow, Car

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• Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Fighting, People, Hatred

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• Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.

  Brent L. Top

  Blessing, Compassion, Empathy

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• The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Essence, Tolerance

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• Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

  Marlena De Blasi

  People, Deeds, Empty

  Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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• The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Desire, Way, Sinning

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Lame, Limping

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

  Donna Fargo

  Teacher, Encouragement, Simple

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• The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Self, Musician, Sound

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• Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Suffering, Wish

  The Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland (2002). “An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

  Clarence Darrow

  Charity, Might, Birth

  A Plea for Mercy, delivered September 1924

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• Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Things In Life, Wish, World

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• If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Winning, Numbers, Long

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• When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

  Leonard Sweet

  Learners

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.92, Harper Collins

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• We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

  Matthew Henry

  Children, Errors, Promoting

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Romans to revelation”, p.394

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• You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.

  Max Lucado

  Skills, Challenges, Needs

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• Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they inherit an even stronger biological bias for kindness, compassion, cooperation, love and nurture - especially toward those in need. This inbuilt ethical sense is a biological feature of our species.

  Jerome Kagan

  Compassion, Envy, Rude

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• When you treat people with massive respect and kindness, amazing to me how they return your respect and kindness 100X...even though you expected zero in return.

  Robin Sharma

  Zero, People, Return

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 16, 2013

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