Kindness Quotes - Page 40

• The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Life, Friendship, Family

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• My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

  Douglas Coupland

  Giving, Sick, Secret

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thankful, Attitude, Crazy

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

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• Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Friendship, Heart, May

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• Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

  Mary Karr

  Life, Monsters, World

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

  Euripides

  Life, Anger, Limits

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• Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Watches, Fields

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Nov 12, 2016

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• I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Believe, Ambition

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• I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

  Shel Silverstein

  Goodbye, Eye, May

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• Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Works of John Ruskin: The crown of wild olive".

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• Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crazy, Destiny, Men

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• Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.

  Matthew Scully

  Character, Animal, Rights

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.14, Souvenir Press

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• Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Stars, Light

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.3, Beacon Press

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• There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

  John Steinbeck

  Confusion, Effort, Laziness

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.65, Penguin

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• A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

  Daniel Handler

  Giving Up, Integrity, Successful

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• If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Advice, Vagueness

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• The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

  E. B. White

  Feelings, Rodents, Rats

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.170, Cornell University Press

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• My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Pain, Loneliness

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• I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

  William Penn

  Civility, Courtesy, Knows

  William Hepworth Dixon, William Penn (1851). “William Penn, a Historical Biography”, p.161

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• These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

  Michael Cunningham

  Believe, Tired, People

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.18, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one.

  Richard Matheson

  Children, Proud, Saws

  "Fictional character: Chris Nielsen". "What Dreams May Come", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

  James A. Garfield

  Loyalty, Running, Integrity

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• Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

  Confucius

  Education, Men, Generosity

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• Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

  Rumi

  Life, Sweet, Deeds

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• The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

  Terry Goodkind

  Understanding, Sound, Path

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