Kindness Quotes - Page 33

• I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

  Eve Ensler

  Nurse, Nine, Details

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

  Alistair Begg

  Father, Church, Looks

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• To love those that love you is easy. To love those that love you not is not so simple. If you want to change anyone, set a better example. Show more kindness, more understanding, more love. That has a
  sure effect. To those who are not kind, show kindness. To those who are mean, show bigness of heart.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Love You, Heart, Mean

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• Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.

  Bo Lozoff

  Opportunity, Each Day, World

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.96, Penguin

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• The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.

  Lois W.

  Beautiful, People, World

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• I'm a very nice guy, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness.

  Robert Herjavec

  Mistake, Nice, Guy

  "Here's Why You Shouldn't Always Take The First Offer On 'Shark Tank'" by Vivian Giang, shark475.rssing.com. November 23, 2013.

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• Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Names, Done

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• 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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• 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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• In a partner I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is conscientious about the trail he leaves behind him. Love. Unconditional kindness. Basically, I'm looking for the qualities I revere in my friends.

  Renee Zellweger

  Boys, Quality, Boy Scout

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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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