Kindness Quotes - Page 39

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  Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

  Samuel Smiles

  Helping Others, Self, Giving

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.6

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• I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

  William Stafford

  Not Giving Up, Thoughtful, Broken

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• Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

  Amy Tan

  Inspiration, Flukes, Desperation

  Amy Tan (2004). “The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings”

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• Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Mind, Doe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4253, Delphi Classics

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• What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Giving, Kind, Bless

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2821, Delphi Classics

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• Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Sixty Minutes, Confusion

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.392, Library of America

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• She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

  Mark Twain

  Bird, Parrots, Persons

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.398, Courier Corporation

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• Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Witty, Business

  1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch.22.

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• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Communication, Writing

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

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• Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Sympathy, Patience, Opportunity

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• I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

  Sofia Vergara

  Women, The End Of The Day, Appreciated

  "Sofia Vergara talks sex and bikinis in Esquire: Who's the sexiest TV actress?", www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2012.

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• A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

  Simone Weil

  Optimistic, Mean People, Hurtful

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.72, Psychology Press

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• If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.

  Betty White

  Baby, Responsibility, Animal

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

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• When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

  Betty White

  Animal, Thinking, Feelings

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

  Sloan Wilson

  Children, Being Ignored, Too Much

  Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Cruelty, Mankind

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.421, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

  Tony Kushner

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  "Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika". Book by Tony Kushner, January 18, 2017.

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• Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

  Margaret Atwood

  Distance, Men, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, People, Tolerance

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• Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.

  Robert Burns

  New Year, Mind, Cups

  Robert Burns (2016). “Burns: 'A Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems”, p.96, Michael O'Mara Books

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• That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Honesty, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 04, 2011

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• All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Survival, Stories

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Home, Rochester, Back Again

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

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