Kindness Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

  Mitch Albom

  Generosity, Detroit, Tough

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• OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Integrity, Generosity, Spirit

  "Glamour Interview: Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Keys Talk!". Interview with Kristin Hahn, www.glamour.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

  Mayim Bialik

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Each Day, Want

  "Mayim Bialik: 'Things Can Only Get Better' After a Rough Year". Interview with Dahvi Shira, people.com. January 14, 2013.

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• I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

  Georg Brandes

  Brutality, Goodness, Baseness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

  Julie Burchill

  Effort, Age, Looks

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• People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

  Sophia Bush

  People, Treated, Sophia

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• Adversity is the first path to truth.

  Lord Byron

  Adversity, Not Giving Up, Thoughtful

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Cancer, Moving Forward

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press

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• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

  Jilly Cooper

  Marriage, Women, Humorous

  "Men and Supermen". Book by Jilly Cooper, 1972.

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• Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspiring, Honesty, Compassion

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• If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Love, Hurt, Laughter

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

  Cat Deeley

  Intelligent, Men, Important

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• When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

  George Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Reality, Atheism, Politics

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

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• First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Smile, Commitment, Boys

  Tribute to Princess Diana on the Eve of her Funeral, delivered 9 September 1997, Chinese Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, Westminster

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• You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

  Brian Eno

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

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• I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

  Carrie Fisher

  Christmas, Christian, Thinking

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• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

  Robert Frost

  Heart, Compassion, Icy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 578, 1895.

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• You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Organization, Doe

  "High on Foggy Bottom: An Outsider's Inside View of the Government". Book by Charles Frankel, 1969.

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Integrity

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• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Promise, Spain

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