Kind Quotes - Page 151

The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, even those who aren't helping us directly.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

I'm not a vegetarian. Now, don't get me wrong - I like animals. And I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches. But there's no way to treat animals well when you're killing 10 billion of them a year. Kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.