Kindness Quotes - Page 31

• Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Stranger, Courtesy, Treats

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• Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.128, Penguin

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• From spiritual connection springs kindness, connection, social activism, and love.

  Dani Shapiro

  Spiritual, Spring, And Love

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• I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

  Gerald Stern

  Remember, Shyness, Obedience

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.

  Sophie Blackall

  Reading, Generosity, Humanity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

  Paul Bloom

  Mean, Compassion, Love Is

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.

  Paul Bloom

  Buddhism, Thinking, Compassion

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.

  Leigh Anne Tuohy

  Giving, Feelings, Want

  Source: www.today.com

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• I love to be by the ocean and have always done my best thinking by the sea. The ebb and flow is like a brain massage and very calming. I am also inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

  Roma Downey

  Ocean, Thinking, Sea

  "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.

  Allison McAtee

  Mind, Looks, Shells

  "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.

  Erica Tazel

  Mother, Powerful, Integrity

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• I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.

  Brené Brown

  Compassion, Self, Way

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• So, you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce and know you can attract divine energy to help you. Dormant forces come alive when you put your attention on what you intend to manifest and when you stay connected to your source of well-being, your source of kindness, and your source that excludes no one.

  Wayne Dyer

  Wish, Alive, Energy

  "Interview With New Age Retailer". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2005.

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• I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition - it would really be the world of kindness .

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Greed, Competition

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• The key is to trust in your own divinity, to know that you are a piece of God, and that you are like what you came from. As a spiritual being, you have Divinity within. When Albert Einstein was asked about the impact of quantum physics, he said, "It's just all details, I just want to think like God thinks." And God thinks in terms of creating, kindness, beauty and goodness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Impact

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• There is an element - particularly on social media - where I want to encourage positivity and kindness rather than negativity and bashing of other people. I think that is a way I try to incorporate social responsibility into my life, but I feel like my day to day is pretty average.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Responsibility, Positivity, Thinking

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic.

  Frank Warren

  Heart, Laughing, Emotion

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• Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world. I get a kick out of making a strangers day.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Uplifting, Simple, Doors

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• Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Strong, Children

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• Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.

  Danielle Arbid

  Film, Young, Stills

  "‘Parisienne’ Director Danielle Arbid on Telling A Positive Story About a Foreigner Living in Paris". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2016.

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• I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness. There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.

  Leslie Jordan

  Believe, Thinking, Stupidity

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

  Mark Millar

  Men, Thinking, Role Models

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Acting politely in front of someone black and/or gay and then making horrible claims about their intelligence or worth as human beings after they leave the room is not kindness - it's hypocrisy.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Gay, Hypocrisy, Black

  "Even if It Kills Me". "Dear Prudence" with Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. March 16, 2016.

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• I count on the kindness of strangers.

  Bill Murray

  Stranger

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Important, Said, Funniness

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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