Kind Quotes - Page 112

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

Everyone, regardless of his or her decisions, deserves our kindness!

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

I'm not talking about Trump's brand but rather the intimately connected brand called "make America great again" that he created to make all these promises to working Americans - is intensely vulnerable, if there is sustained scrutiny of the kind we've seen about Comey and Russia. He's appointed five Goldman Sachs former executives to his Cabinet, his commerce secretary is renegotiating NAFTA to make it far better for corporations and worse for workers, and they're talking about this right out in the open... I mean, how much news have you seen about that?

We each have the kind of children we deserve.

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.

Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.

Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!