Kindness Quotes - Page 39

• I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Gambling, Play

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 21 November 1773

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• Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Flower, Sun

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

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• What is pity but the vice of kindness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vices, Pity

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• We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Generosity, Joy

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Fear Nothing”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

  Charles Fenno Hoffman

  Greatness, Be Kind, Vain

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• Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

  Jamie Oliver

  Honesty, Improvement, Virtue

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• It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of heaven....We may attend to rites and rituals and yet overlook the weightier matters such as brotherly kindness, honesty, mercy, virtue, and integrity. Let us never forget that if we omit them from our lives we may be found unworthy to come into His presence.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Honesty, Integrity, Heaven

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• Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without any fear, by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, if they wanted. But they neither abstain from sin nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins, for they do not take into consideration their unworthiness of the kindness of the one whom they do not serve.

  Bridget of Sweden

  People, Sin, Intention

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• The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.

  Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi

  Letting Go, Moving, Compassion

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• I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Business, Integrity, Crime

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• More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for kindly behaviour, the results may be needlessly unfortunate. That is why it is important to show that no supernatural reasons are needed to make [people] kind and to prove that only through kindness can the human race achieve happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Philosophical, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.88, Psychology Press

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• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

  Plutarch

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

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• When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Compassion

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• The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

  William Barclay

  Spiritual, Men, Grace

  William Barclay (1999). “Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah”, p.36, Westminster John Knox Press

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• ...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Touching

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• Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Spiritual, Powerful, People

  Dannion Brinkley, Paul Perry (2009). “Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• How wise must one be to be always kind.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Wise, Kind

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• You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Heart, Giving, Joy

  "The Ladder of the Beatitudes". Book by Jim Forest, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

  Simon Cowell

  Girl, Zero, Lying

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• In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!

  David E. Sorensen

  Hurt, Selfish, Criticism

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• It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

  Robert Solow

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

  Joss Whedon

  Boyfriend, Love You, Perfect

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Touched". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wife, Way

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

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  My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Changing

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.71, Random House

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• Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Time

  Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (2010). “Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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