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Kind Quotes - Page 113

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.32, Hackett Publishing

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.58, Conari Press

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.41, Knopf Books for Young Readers

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.63, Beacon Press

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.27

People don't rise from nothing.

Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.16, Penguin UK

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Leonardo Sciascia, Marcelle Padovani, James Marcus (1994). “Sicily as metaphor”, Marlboro Pr